Elkins / Pedersen Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century

Projects, Practices, Legacies
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-136-07746-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 318 Seiten

Postcolonial states and metropolitan societies still grapple today with the divisive and difficult legacies unleashed by settler colonialism.

Whether they were settled for trade or geopolitical reasons, these settler communities had in common their shaping of landholding, laws, and race relations in colonies throughout the world. By looking at the detail of settlements in the twentieth century--from European colonial projects in Africa and expansionist efforts by the Japanese in Korea and Manchuria, to the Germans in Poland and the historical trajectories of Israel/Palestine and South Africa--and analyzing the dynamics set in motion by these settlers, the contributors to this volume establish points of comparison to offer a new framework for understanding the character and fate of twentieth-century empires.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Elkins, Caroline

Pedersen, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Settler Colonialism: A Concept and its Uses
Caroline Elkins and Susan Pedersen
I. Creating Settler Colonies: Utopian Visions and Totalizing Worlds

Malthusian Dreams, Colonial Imaginary: The Oriental Development Company and Japanese Emigration to Korea
Hyung Gu Lynn
Settler Citizenship in the Jewish Colonization of Palestine
Gershon Shafir
Between Empire and Nation: Settler Colonialism in Manchukuo
Prasenjit Duara
Settling Against the Tide: The Layered Contradictions of Twentieth Century Portuguese Settlement in Mozambique
Jeanne Penvenne
Management and Manipulation: Nazi Settlement Planners and Ethnic German Settlers in Occupied Poland
Elizabeth Harvey
Settler Colonialism at the Bar of the League of Nations
Susan Pedersen
II. Settler Colonialism in Action: Institutions and Practices
Mission Legislatrice: Extraterritoriality and Japan's Legal Mission to Korea in the Early Twentieth Century
Alexis Dudden
Brokers of Empire: Japanese and Korean Business Elites in Colonial Korea
Jun Uchida
Settler Colonization in the Middle East and North Africa: Its Economic Rationale

Roger Owen
Racial Violence and the Origins of Segregation in South Africa

Ivan Evans
Race, Citizenship and Governance: Settler Tyranny and the End of Empire

Caroline Elkins
III. Settler Communities after Decolonization: Myths, Memories, Strategies
The "Southern" World of the Pieds-Noirs: References to and Representations of Europeans in Colonial Algeria

Benjamin Stora
Imperial Remnants: the Repatriates in Postwar Japan

Lori Watt
Unsettling the Metropole: Race and Settler Re-incorporation in Postcolonial Portugal

Stephen Lubkemann
"Sleep with a Southwester": Monuments and Settler Identity in Namibia.
Jeremy Silvester

Über Autor(innen)

Caroline Elkins is Assistant Professor of History at Harvard University.

Susan Pedersen is Professor of History at Columbia University.