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American settler colonialism : a history
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American settler colonialism : a history / Walter L. Hixson.
ISBN
1137374241 (hbk)
9781137374240 (hbk)
113737425X (pbk.)
9781137374257 (pbk.)
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Physical Description
xii, 253 pages ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 20, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : settler colonialism, history, and theory
People from the unknown world : the colonial encounter and the acceleration of violence
No savage shall inherit the land : settler colonialism through the American Revolution
The common enemy of the country : settler colonialism to the Mississippi River
Scenes of agony and blood : Manifest Destiny and the crisis of settler colonialism
They promised to take our land and they took it : completing the continental settler colonial project
Spaces of denial : American colonialism in Hawai'i and Alaska
Things too scandalous to write : the Philippine intervention and the continuities of colonialism
A very particular kind of inclusion : indigenous people in the postcolonial United States
Conclusion : the boomerang of savagery.
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