Preface
A. Dirk Moses
SECTION I: INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AND CONCEPTUAL QUESTIONS
Chapter 1. Empire, Colony, Genocide: Keywords and the
Philosophy of History
A. Dirk Moses
Chapter 2. Anti-colonialism in Western Political Thought:
The Colonial Origins of the Concept of Genocide
Andrew Fitzmaurice
Chapter 3. Are Settler-Colonies Inherently Genocidal?
Re-reading Lemkin
John Docker
Chapter 4. Structure and Event: Settler Colonialism,
Time, and the Question of Genocide
Patrick Wolfe
Chapter 5. "Crime without a Name": The Case for
"Indigenocide"
Raymond Evans
Chapter 6. Colonialism and Genocides: Towards an Analysis
of the Settler Archive of the European Imagination
Lorenzo Veracini
Chapter 7. Biopower and Modern Genocide
Dan Stone
SECTION II: EMPIRE, COLONIZATION AND GENOCIDE
Chapter 8. Empires, Native Peoples, and Genocide
Mark Levene
Chapter 9. Colonialism, History, and Genocide in
Cambodia, 1747–2005
Ben Kiernan
Chapter 10. Genocide in Tasmania: The History of an
Idea
Ann Curthoys
Chapter 11. "The aborigines... were never annihilated,
and still they are becoming extinct": Settler Imperialism and
Genocide in 19th-century America and Australia
Norbert Finzsch
Chapter 12. Navigating the Cultural Encounter: Blackfoot
Religious Resistance in Canada (c. 1870-1930)
Blanca Tovías
Chapter 13. Genocide in German Southwest Africa and
German East Africa
Dominik J. Schaller
Chapter 14. Inner Colonization and Inter-imperial
Conflict: The Destruction of the Armenians and the End of the
Ottoman Empire
Donald Bloxham
Chapter 15. Inner Colonialism and the Question of
Genocide in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
Robert Geraci
Chapter 16. Colonialism and Genocide in Nazi-occupied
Poland and Ukraine
David Furber and Wendy Lower
SECTION III: SUBALTERN GENOCIDE
Chapter 17. Genocide from Below: The Great Inca Rebellion
of 1780–82 in the Southern Andes
David Cahill
Chapter 18. Political Loyalties and the Genocide of a
Settler Community: The Eurasians in Indonesia, 1945-46
Robert Cribb
Chapter 19. Savages, Subjects, and Sovereigns:
Conjunctions of Modernity, Genocide, and Colonialism
Alexander L. Hinton
Notes on Contributors
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Index
A. Dirk Moses Dirk Moses is chair of global and colonial history at the European University Institute, Florence / University of Sydney. He has published widely on modern Germany and Comparative Genocide Studies. His publications include Genocide and Settler Society (Berghahn Books 2004) and German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (CUP 2007)
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genocide will raise among careful readers.” · H-Net
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volume in an exemplary manner.” · Zeitschrift für
Genozidforschung “There is still so much to be understood and
interpreted about the intersections of empire, colony and Genocide,
and the pieces gathered here by Moses are successfully informative
and thought-provoking.” · Journal of Australian
Colonial History “…a fine body of work. The essays cannot examine
every example of genocide, but collectively they represent a
starting point for students, scholars and general readers. For this
reason, I wholeheartedly recommend this book for high school and
university courses alike.” · Canadian Journal of
History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire “Moses has gathered an elite
cohort of scholars with unrivalled expertise. Still, he makes no
claim to comprehensiveness and I must follow his example. It is way
beyond any review to do justice to the wealth of research and
interpretive insight in all of these contributions. So let me say
at the outset: the book is essential reading for anyone grappling
with the deep and often intractable issues that confront us as
historians of genocide.” · Borderlands e-journal “The
essential problem of the book – its recurrent question as well as
its potential pitfall – is the position of the Holocaust in
relation to other acts of extermination…This creates a tension
throughout the book; it also makes it worth debating and certainly
makes it a remarkably useful text to inform further research and
for teaching purposes.” · Journal of Global
History “...the volume offers an unusually rich, deeply disturbing
material.” · Peripherie “Empire, Colony,
Genocide represents an important contribution to genocide studies.
Taken individually or collectively, the contributors should be
applauded for some thoughtful, methodologically sophisticated, and
intellectually rigorous work ... What this volume provides,
therefore, is stimulus to further analyze the social, economic, and
cultural threads that fostered this complexity, and rationalized
genocidal violence.” · Journal of Genocide
Research "Crossing broad temporal ranges and geographies, the
collection represents a significant advance in genocide scholarship
in its fusion of ostensibly unconnected episodes of mass violence,
mass migrations, and nation building projects. It also represents a
critical attempt to revisit the impact of murderous impulses in
Western modernity as a structural logic with definable processes
and actively pursued outcomes of domination and erasure of the
colonised” · Australian Journal of Politics
and History “In summary, this is a book that proposes a daring
thesis, namely that genocide since antiquity has its origins in
imperialism and colonialism.” · Journal of
World History “The volume is disturbing and provocative reading. It
raises fundamental methodological and conceptual notions related to
genocide. It thereby positions genocide studies in their own right
much independent of the hitherto largely dominant Holocaust
studies, and situates the latter in a wider context. It is a
context of a modern history of violence, which emerged in its still
existing forms hand in hand with the industrial mode of
production.” · New Routes, A Journal of
Peace Research and Action "An immensely stimulating volume ...
[that] meets the challenge to make this kind of mass violence ... a
subject ... of global historical importance. It brings together in
an innovative way the ‘crime without name’ as it is sometimes
called ... with settler colonialism. This approach thus provides a
common framework for fields of research that until then were
thought to be disparate. Without relativising the genocide of the
European Jews, which was in the minds of Lemkin and the UN
Convention, new cross references are nevertheless being
trialled." · H-Soz-u-Kult "This volume offers
an important contribution to the discussion on methodological and
conceptional foundations of the notion of genocide in that it
identifies the latter more precisely and anchors it more firmly in
historical epistemology than has been the case up to now in
Genocide Studies… Second, this volume reflects new developments in
Genocide Studies in its focus on ‘Genocide from Below’… Third, some
contributions stand out because of their daring and unconventional
approaches [which should be] an encouragement for others to abandon
scholarly blinkers." · Sehepunkte "…a
meticulously researched and deftly edited scholarly
reference…strongly recommended to community library history
collections and any non-specialist general reader with a strong
interest in world history." · The Midwest
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