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Abstract / Summary

Colonial Genocide has been seen increasingly as a stepping-stone to the European genocides of the twentieth century, yet it remains an under-researched phenomenon. This volume reconstructs instances of Australian genocide and for the first time places them in a global context. Beginning with the arrival of the British in 1788 and extending to the 1960s, the authors identify the moments of radicalization and the escalation of British violence and ethnic engineering aimed at the Indigenous populations, while carefully distinguishing between local massacres, cultural genocide, and genocide itself. These essays reflect a growing concern with the nature of settler society in Australia and in particular with the fate of the tens of thousands of children who were forcibly taken away from their Aboriginal families by state agencies. Long considered a relatively peaceful settlement, Australian society contained many of the pathologies that led to the exterminatory and eugenic policies of twentieth century Europe.

Field of Interest

Global Issues

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Copyright © 2004 by Berghahn Books

Content Type

Book

Duration

0 sec

Warning: Contains explicit content

No

Format

Text

Original Publication Date

2004

Page Count

325

Publication Year

2012

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Place Published / Released

New York, NY

Series Number

Volume 6

Subject

Global Issues, Social Sciences, Individual and Groups Rights, Stolen Generations (Australian Aboriginal Children) (1909-1969), Children, Colonial populations, Genocide, Indigenous peoples, Politics & Policy, History, Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos, Tasmania, Australia, Tasmanian Aborigines, Australian Aborigines, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)

Series / Program

War and Genocide

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos