Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
Podcast/interview: Jean M. O’Brien on the Historical Erasure of Indians in New England, appearing on Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond.
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Jens-Uwe Guettel, ‘From the Frontier to German South-West Africa: German Colonialism, Indians and American Westward Expansion’, Modern Intellectual History 7, 3 (2010) This article argues that positive perceptions of American westward expansion played a major (and so far overlooked) role both for the domestic German debate about the necessity of overseas expansion and for concrete […]
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Frances Peters-Little, Ann Curthoys and John Docker, eds., Passionate Histories: Myth, memory and Indigenous Australia (ANU E-Press, Aboriginal History Monograph 21, 2010). This book examines the emotional engagements of both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous people with Indigenous history. The contributors are a mix of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous scholars, who in different ways examine how the past […]
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Lorenzo Veracini, ‘The Settler Colonial Situation’, Native Studies Review 19, 1 (2010): This article interprets the settler-colonial situation as fundamentally premised on the irruption into a specific locale of a sovereign collective of settlers. A comprehensive body of historical and postcolonial literature highlights how the colonial situation is premised on the sustained reproduction of a […]
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Edward Cavanagh, ‘Fur Trade Colonialism: Traders and Cree at Hudson Bay, 1713-67’, Australasian Canadian Studies 27, 1-2 (2009). abstract: Why has the historic Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) been considered a ‘non-colonial company’ by Canadian historians? Surely those inescapably colonial dyads of insiders/outsiders, rulers/subjects, and Europeans/Natives, suggest otherwise; and as such, we should try comparing it […]
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Yet to appear online this one, but some libraries might be subscribed. Australasian Canadian Studies 1-2 (2009) Cindy Blackstock, ‘Federation Dialogue: Is this our Canada? Is this our Australia? First Nations Child and Family Safety and Well-being in Two Commonwealth Countries’. Michelle Eady and Alison Reedy, ‘Crocodiles and Polar Bears: Technology and Learning in Indigenous […]
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Damien Short, ‘Australia: a continuing genocide?’, Journal of Genocide Research 12, 1 (2010) Abstract: Debates about genocide in Australia have for the most part focussed on past frontier killings and child removal practices. This article, however, focuses on contemporary culturally destructive policies, and the colonial structures that produce them, through the analytical lens of the […]
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Mohamed Adhikari, ‘A total extinction confidently hoped for: the destruction of Cape San society under Dutch colonial rule, 1700-1795’, Journal of Genocide Research 12, 1 (2010) Abstract: San (Bushman) society in the Cape Colony was almost completely annihilated during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a result of land confiscation, massacre, forced labour and cultural […]
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Ethan Davis, ‘An Administrative Trail of Tears: Indian Removal’, American Journal of Legal History 50 (2010). Abstract In the early nineteenth century, the federal government uprooted the so-called five “Civilized Tribes” of the South and sent them westward to modern day Oklahoma. This article rediscovers the long-forgotten administrative system that guided the removal of one […]
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Carolyn B. Ramsey, ‘Domestic Violence and State Intervention in the American West and Australia, 1860-1930’, Indiana Law Journal 86 (2011) Abstract: This article calls into question stereotypical assumptions about the presumed lack of state intervention in the family and the patriarchal violence of Anglo-American frontier societies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By […]
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