And settlers too: H. L. Hennessey, ‘J. L. (2024). ‘Preacher, Trader, Soldier, Spy: Studying Transimperial Individuals through their Occupational Roles’, in B. Schär, M. Toivanen (eds), Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, pp. 17-36 | settler colonial studies blog

And settlers too: H. L. Hennessey, ‘J. L. (2024). ‘Preacher, Trader, Soldier, Spy: Studying Transimperial Individuals through their Occupational Roles’, in B. Schär, M. Toivanen (eds), Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, pp. 17-36

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Excerpt: In virtually every example of modern settler colonialism, settlers have unsurprisingly been the staunchest defenders of the unequal colonial order, whether in the form of segregation, harsh punitive laws or even genocidal militia warfare against colonized peoples. Settler lobbies often fiercely resisted humanitarian reforms issued by the metropole and resented other metropolitan interference in colonial affairs. This dynamic may have been exacerbated as transimperial settlers attempted to assimilate into the majority settler culture. As James McDougall writes of Algeria, ‘As the divisions between communities and individuals of different European origins became blurred and tended to dissipate, so the line demarcating Europeans en bloc from [Muslim] Algerians … became harder, remaining as the primary focus of social and political antagonism.’ In this way, the most vulnerable segment of colonial societies, the indigenous population, could thus come to bear the brunt of transimperial settlers’ desire for inclusion as they sought to differentiate themselves from such subalterns.

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