Colonialism and Genocide

<p>Previously published as a special issue of <em>Patterns of Prejudice</em> 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. </p><p>This book publishes Lemkin’s account of the genocide of the Aboriginal Tasmanians for the first time and chapters cover:</p><ul> <li>the exterminatory rhetoric of racist discourses before the ‘scientific racism’ of the mid-nineteenth century</li> <li>Charles Darwin’s preoccupation with the extinction of peoples in the face of European colonialism</li> <li>a reconstruction of a virtually unknown case of ‘subaltern genocide’</li> <li>global perspective on the links between modernity and the Holocaust </li> </ul><p>Social theorists and historians alike will find this a must-read.</p>