Dimensions of Settler Colonialism in a Transnational Perspective

<p>As a field of research settler colonial studies has developed dynamically in recent years. This volume contributes a set of much-needed empirical analyses of the microhistory and practices of settler colonialism. Incorporating six case studies from across the Anglo-world including the United States Australia and South Africa this book examines the roles different actors played in this process their individual experiences and the social and physical (re-)organization of settler colonial space. They reconstruct the complexities of settler responses to Indigenous resistance guided by fear or religious convictions; and explore the settlers’ potential to manoeuvre on higher political levels legitimizing frontier violence as a patriotic duty to the common good. In addition they examine the production and circulation of knowledge about land and discuss the ways in which socio-ecological systems were manipulated by stock farmers whose success depended upon an effective integration into a world-wide economic system. Overall the volume presents a unique combination of microhistorical analysis and environmental history. This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Settler Colonial Studies. </i></p>