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American settler colonialism : a history / Walter L. Hixson.

By: Publisher: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Edition: First editionDescription: xii, 253 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781137374240
  • 9781137374257
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.3 23
LOC classification:
  • E179.5 .H59 2013
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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-245) and index.

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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