The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism

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The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism examines the global history of settler colonialism as a distinct mode of domination from ancient times to the present day. It explores the ways in which new polities were established in freshly discovered ‘New Worlds’, and covers the history of many countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Japan, South Africa, Liberia, Algeria, Canada, and the USA. Chronologically as well as geographically wide-reaching, this volume focuses on an extensive array of topics and regions ranging from settler colonialism in the Neo-Assyrian and Roman empires, to relationships between indigenes and newcomers in New Spain and the early Mexican republic, to the settler-dominated polities of Africa during the twentieth century. Its twenty-nine inter-disciplinary chapters focus on single colonies or on regional developments that straddle the borders of present-day states, on successful settlements that would go on to become powerful settler nations, on failed settler colonies, and on the historiographies of these experiences. Taking a fundamentally international approach to the topic, this book analyses the varied experiences of settler colonialism in countries around the world. With a synthesizing yet original introduction, this is a landmark contribution to the emerging field of settler colonial studies and will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the global history of imperialism and colonialism. "This volume shows how the deep history of settler colonialism has shaped our world today. As settlers move to new lands, the result is almost always unsettling. We need studies like this to better appreciate the ongoing consequences of our shared colonial legacies." - Coel Kirkby, University of Melbourne, Australia Acknowledgements List of contributors Introduction: settler colonialism as a distinct mode of domination Lorenzo Veracini PART I Settler colonialism in the ‘Old World Introduction to Part I Edward Cavanagh 1 – Settler colonialism from the Neo-Assyrians to the Romans Mark W. Graham 2 – Settler colonialism in ancient Israel Pekka Pitkänen 3 – Mediterranean and Atlantic settler colonialism from the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth centuries Patrick O’Flanagan 4 - Settler colonialism in Ireland from the English conquest to the nineteenth century S. J. Connolly 5 - Northern Ireland and settler colonialism to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 Stephen Howe PART II The Americas Introduction to Part II Edward Cavanagh 6 - Colonies of settlement and settler colonialism in Northeastern North America, 1450-1850 John G. Reid and Thomas Peace 7 – Atlantic North America from contact to the late nineteenth century Matthew Crow 8 - Settler colonialism in New Spain and the early Mexican republic Ignacio Martínez 9 - Northwestern North America (Canadian West) to 1900 Laura Ishiguro 10 - Settler colonialism in postcolonial Latin America Michael Goebel 11 - Settler colonialism and the consolidation of Canada in the twentieth century Adam J. Barker, Toby Rollo and Emma Battell Lowman 12 - Adaptation, resistance, and representation in the modern US settler state Walter L. Hixson PART III Africa Introduction to Part III Edward Cavanagh 13 - Settler colonialism in South Africa, 1652–1899 Robert Ross 14 - French Algeria, 1830-1962 Sung Choi 15 - Americo Liberia as a settler society James Ciment 16 - Settler colonialism in Kenya, 1880-1950 Will Jackson 17 - Settler rule in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1979 Enocent Msindo 18 - The Italian fascist settler empire in Ethiopia, 1936-1941 Emanuele Ertola 19 - White settler politics and Euro-African nationalism in Angola, 1945-1975 Fernando Tavares Pimenta 20 - Settler colonialism in South Africa: land, labour, and transformation, 1880-2015 Edward Cavanagh PART IV Asia Introduction to Part IV Edward Cavanagh 21 – Russian settler colonialism Alexander Morrison 22 – Settler colonialism in the making of Japan’s Hokkaidō Katsuya Hirano 　 23 - Theorizing Zionist settler colonialism in Palestine Gershon Shafir 24 - A dying settler colonialism: Israel and the Palestinians after 1948 Arnon Degani PART V Australasia Introduction to Part V Edward Cavanagh 25 - Australian settler colonialism over the long nineteenth century: new insights into history, gender and biopolitics Penelope Edmonds and Jane Carey 26 - Settler colonialism in New Zealand, 1840-1907 Richard Hill 27 - Settler colonialism in New Caledonia, 1853 to the present David Chappell 28 - Settler Australia in the twentieth century Sarah Maddison 29 - Settler colonialism in twentieth-century New Zealand Felicity Barnes Index