Edward Cavanagh - The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism

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 29 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.

Edward Cavanagh is the Isaac Newton Trust Research Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge. His degrees have come from universities in Australia, South Africa and Canada. He has published in the fields of history and law, including Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa (2013) and The Griqua Past and the Limits of South African History, 19021994 (2011).

Lorenzo Veracini is Associate Professor in History at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on the comparative history of colonial systems and on settler colonialism. His publications include The Settler Colonial Present (2015), Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (2010) and Israel and Settler Society (2006). Lorenzo is editor in chief of Settler Colonial Studies.

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Names: Cavanagh, Edward, editor. | Veracini, Lorenzo, editor.
Title: The Routledge handbook of the history of settler colonialism / edited by
Edward Cavanagh and Lorenzo Veracini.
Other titles: Handbook of the history of settler colonialism
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Series: The
Routledge history handbooks | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016004657 | ISBN 9780415742160 (hardback : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781315544816 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: ColonizationHistory. | ColoniesHistory. |
ColonistsHistory.
Classification: LCC JV61 .R68 2016 | DDC 325/.309dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016004657

ISBN: 978-0-415-74216-0 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-54481-6 (ebk)

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Lorenzo Veracini

Part I
Settler colonialism in the Old World

Edward Cavanagh

Mark W. Graham

Pekka Pitknen

Patrick OFlanagan

S. J. Connolly

Stephen Howe

Part II
The Americas

Edward Cavanagh

John G. Reid and Thomas Peace

Matthew Crow

Ignacio Martnez

Laura Ishiguro

Michael Goebel

Adam J. Barker, Toby Rollo and Emma Battell Lowman

Walter L. Hixson

Part III
Africa

Edward Cavanagh

Robert Ross

Sung Choi

James Ciment

Will Jackson

Enocent Msindo

Emanuele Ertola

Fernando Tavares Pimenta

Edward Cavanagh

Part IV
Asia

Edward Cavanagh

Alexander Morrison

Katsuya Hirano

Gershon Shafir

Arnon Degani

Part V
Australasia

Edward Cavanagh

Penelope Edmonds and Jane Carey

Richard S. Hill

David Chappell

Sarah Maddison

Felicity Barnes

First of all: it is customary to thank the good people in the publishing house who have made a large, edited collection possible. But in this case our gratitude it is especially warranted. A big thank you to Amy Welmers and Eve Setch at Routledge. Both editors contributed in equal measure to the coordination and configuration of this collection.

Lorenzo: This research received no specific grant from any government funding agency or any for-profit organisation. As a matter of fact, it was cross-subsidised by my students future income. It is a remarkable vote of confidence. For this, I am immensely grateful.

Ed: This books authors come from various locations across the world, and their contributions are fittingly diverse in geographical scope. They all deserve our thanks, but most especially those for whom English is not their first language. Global history can be stubborn in this way.

Adam J. Barkers main area of research is the Canadian and American states as sites of historical and ongoing settler colonisation, with special attention to the complex and contradictory dynamics of social justice activism in those places. His most recent book (with Emma Battell Lowman) is Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada (Fernwood Press, 2015), an examination of how settler Canadians identify with and through structures, systems and stories of settler colonial domination and how these durable social discourses can be confronted.