Archive for December, 2010
Robert K. Hitchcock and Samuel Totten, ed., Genocide of Indigenous Peoples (Transaction: New Brunswick, 2011). An estimated 350 to 600 million indigenous people reside across the globe. Numerous governments fail to recognize its indigenous peoples living within their borders. It was not until the latter part of the twentieth century that the genocide of indigenous […]
Filed under: Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Genocide, Latin America | Closed
accommodation
Stay at the Wigwam Hotel, Arizona hat tip to Mat A.
Filed under: United States, wacky | Closed
thomas mcclendon on the conflict between indirect rule and civilising colonialism in mid-19c natal
Thomas V. McClendon, White Chiefs, Black Lords: Shepstone & the Colonial State in Natal, South Africa, 1845-1878 (University of Rochester Press, 2010). White Chief, Black Lords explores the tensions and contradictions between the British colonial civilizing mission and the practice of indirect rule. While the colonial imperative was to transform colonized societies and bring them […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 