INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES AND SETTLER COLONIALISM by Zoe Laidlaw (Editor), Alan Lester ( 9781137452368 )

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Title:

INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES AND SETTLER COLONIALISM
LAND HOLDING, LOSS AND SURVIVAL IN AN INTERCONNECTED WORLD

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ISBN 10:

1137452366

ISBN 13:

9781137452368

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

30 March, 2015

Series:

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series

Description:

The new world created through Anglophone emigration in the 19th century has been much studied. But there have been few accounts of what this meant for the Indigenous populations. This book shows that Indigenous communities tenaciously held land in the midst of dispossession, whilst becoming interconnected through their struggles to do so.

Synopsis:

The new world created through Anglophone emigration in the nineteenth century has been much studied. But there have been few accounts of what this world meant for Indigenous communities facing invasion by those emigrants. While settlers in the British Empire and the USA have been seen as participants in newly globalized networks, the Indigenous peoples upon whose lands they settled tend to be seen as rooted, localized, and peripheral to the story of imperial and national expansion. This book weaves through trans-imperial, Indigenous, local and family histories, showing that Indigenous communities tenaciously held land in the midst of dispossession, whilst becoming interconnected through their struggles to do so. Moving between Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and the USA, it highlights the enduring associations between race, place and behavior in settler societies from Indigenous perspectives.

Illustrations:

8 maps, 4 black & white illustrations

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Imprint:

Palgrave Macmillan

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Non-returnable

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