Book contents
- The Cambridge World History of Genocide
- The Cambridge World History of Genocide
- The Cambridge World History of Genocide
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume ii
- Introduction to Volume ii
- Part I Settler Colonialism
- 1 ‘The Centrality of Dispossession’
- 2 A Very British Genocide
- 3 Settler Genocides of San Peoples of Southern Africa, c.1700–c.1940
- Part II Empire-Building and State Domination
- Part III Nineteenth-Century Frontier Genocides
- Part IV Premonitions
- Index
1 - ‘The Centrality of Dispossession’
Native American Genocide and Settler Colonialism
from Part I - Settler Colonialism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2023
- The Cambridge World History of Genocide
- The Cambridge World History of Genocide
- The Cambridge World History of Genocide
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume ii
- Introduction to Volume ii
- Part I Settler Colonialism
- 1 ‘The Centrality of Dispossession’
- 2 A Very British Genocide
- 3 Settler Genocides of San Peoples of Southern Africa, c.1700–c.1940
- Part II Empire-Building and State Domination
- Part III Nineteenth-Century Frontier Genocides
- Part IV Premonitions
- Index
Summary
In the early twentieth-first century, settler colonialism emerged as one of the most identifiable paradigms of social and cultural analysis. This chapter assesses this paradigm’s conceptual origins and identifies the study of Indigenous genocide at its center. Drawing from readings of Patrick Wolfe’s work, this chapter highlights the utility of settler colonial studies for the study of genocide and identifies sets of problematics within certain works of genocide. It examines in particular the inability of historians of the United States to reconcile celebratory and/or exceptionalistic visions of North American history with the genocide of Indigenous peoples.
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- The Cambridge World History of Genocide , pp. 23 - 45Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023