Colonialism and genocide

Previously published as a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice, this is the first book to link colonialism and genocide in a systematic way in the context of world history. It fills a significant gap in the current understanding on genocide and the Holocaust, which sees them overwhelmingly as twentieth century phenomena. This book publishes Lemkin₂s account of the genocide of the Aboriginal Tasmanians for the first time and chapters cover: the exterminatory rhetoric of racist discourses before the ₁scientific racism₂ of the mid-nineteenth century Charles Darwin₂s preoccupation with the extinction of peoples in the face of European colonialism, a reconstruction of a virtually unknown case of ₁subaltern genocide₂ global perspective on the links between modernity and the Holocaust. Includes bibliographical references and index. ix, 200 pages ; 26 cm