Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History / Edition 1

Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History / Edition 1

by A. Dirk Moses
ISBN-10:
1571814116
ISBN-13:
9781571814111
Pub. Date:
03/01/2005
Publisher:
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN-10:
1571814116
ISBN-13:
9781571814111
Pub. Date:
03/01/2005
Publisher:
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History / Edition 1

Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History / Edition 1

by A. Dirk Moses
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Overview

Colonial Genocide has been seen increasingly as a stepping-stone to the European genocides of the twentieth century, yet it remains an under-researched phenomenon. This volume reconstructs instances of Australian genocide and for the first time places them in a global context. Beginning with the arrival of the British in 1788 and extending to the 1960s, the authors identify the moments of radicalization and the escalation of British violence and ethnic engineering aimed at the Indigenous populations, while carefully distinguishing between local massacres, cultural genocide, and genocide itself. These essays reflect a growing concern with the nature of settler society in Australia and in particular with the fate of the tens of thousands of children who were forcibly taken away from their Aboriginal families by state agencies. Long considered a relatively peaceful settlement, Australian society contained many of the pathologies that led to the exterminatory and eugenic policies of twentieth century Europe.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781571814111
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 03/01/2005
Series: War and Genocide , #6
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 344
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

A. Dirk Moses Dirk Moses is chair of global and colonial history at the European UniversityInstitute, Florence / University of Sydney. He has also edited another volume in this series entitled Empire, Colony, Genocide.

Table of Contents

Contributorsix
Prefacexiii
Mapxv
Section IConceptual and Historical Determinants
Chapter 1Genocide and Settler Society in Australian History3
Chapter 2Colonialism and the Holocaust. Towards an Archaeology of Genocide49
Chapter 3Genocide and Modernity in Colonial Australia, 1788-185077
Chapter 4"Pigmentia": Racial Fears and White Australia103
Section IIFrontier Violence
Chapter 5Genocide in Tasmania127
Chapter 6"Plenty Shoot'Em": The Destruction of Aboriginal Societies along the Queensland Frontier150
Chapter 7Passed Away? The Fate of the Karuwali174
Chapter 8Punitive Expeditions and Massacres: Gippsland, Colorado, and the Question of Genocide194
Section IIIStolen Indigenous Children
Chapter 9Aboriginal Child Removal and the Question of Genocide, 1900-1940217
Chapter 10"Until the Last Drop of Good Blood": The Kidnapping of "Racially Valuable" Children and Nazi Racial Policy in Occupied Eastern Europe244
Chapter 11"Clearing the Wheat Belt": Erasing the Indigenous Presence in the Southwest of Western Australia267
Chapter 12Governance, not Genocide: Aboriginal Assimilation in the Postwar Era290
Epilogue
Chapter 13Notes on the History of the Aboriginal Population of Australia312
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