Berghahn Books has recently re-published the edited collected, A. Dirk Moses, ed., Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History. This collection of essays is rich in critical insight, and boasts of vast historical coverage. Its original appearance in 2008, I think, proved that the experimental fusion of genocide studies and colonial studies in the early 2000s was more than some academic mariage de convenance; and, for settler colonial studies more generally, it yielded considerable insight into the patterns of destruction and ‘logics of elimination’ implicit in settler projects, past and present. The decision to re-release the book as an affordable paperback is a good one.

Contents

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