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Book Governing Savages

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  • Author : Andrew Markus
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-07-31
  • ISBN : 1000257290
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book Governing Savages written by Andrew Markus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1928, after a white man was killed, a punitive party mounted a series of attacks on Aborigines northwest of Alice Springs. The party's leader admitted that 31 Aborigines were killed. One missionary in the area put the toll at 70; another at as many as 100. Since 1911, the administration of the Northern Territory had been the direct responsibility of the Commonwealth. In placing this event and others within the context of policies pursued by the national government, Governing Savages reveals how policies of brutality and calculated neglect bequeathed a bitter legacy to subsequent generations.

Book Governing Savages

Download or read book Governing Savages written by Andrew Markus and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Political Magic

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  • Author : Christopher F. Loar
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2014-06-05
  • ISBN : 0823256936
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Political Magic written by Christopher F. Loar and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Magic examines early modern British fictions of exploration and colonialism, arguing that narratives of intercultural contact reimagine ideas of sovereignty and popular power. These fictions reveal aspects of political thought in this period that official discourse typically shunted aside, particularly the political status of the commoner, whose “liberty” was often proclaimed even as it was undermined both in theory and in practice. Like the Hobbesian sovereign, the colonist appears to the colonized as a giver of rules who remains unruly. At the heart of many texts are moments of savage wonder, provoked by European displays of technological prowess. In particular, the trope of the first gunshot articulates an origin of consent and political legitimacy in colonial showmanship. Yet as manifestations of force held in abeyance, these technologies also signal the ultimate reliance of sovereigns on extreme violence as the lessthan-mystical foundation of their authority. By examining works by Cavendish, Defoe, Behn, Swift, and Haywood in conjunction with contemporary political writing and travelogues, Political Magic locates a subterranean discourse of sovereignty in the century after Hobbes, finding surprising affinities between the government of “savages” and of Britons.

Book Government

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book Government written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Peoples of the World

Download or read book The Peoples of the World written by Robert Brown and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Peoples of the World  Being a Popular Description of the Characteristics  Condition  and Customs of the Human Family

Download or read book The Peoples of the World Being a Popular Description of the Characteristics Condition and Customs of the Human Family written by Robert Brown and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Musha Incident

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  • Author : Michael Berry
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2022-05-10
  • ISBN : 0231552181
  • Pages : 421 pages

Download or read book The Musha Incident written by Michael Berry and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 27, 1930, members of six Taiwanese indigenous groups ambushed the Japanese attendees of an athletic competition at the Musha Elementary School, killing 134. The uprising came as a shock to Japanese colonial authorities, whose response was swift and brutal. Heavy artillery and battalions of troops assaulted the region, spraying a wide area with banned poison gas. The Seediq from Mhebu, who led the uprising, were brought to the brink of genocide. Over the ensuing decades, the Musha Incident became seen as a central moment in Taiwan’s colonial history, and different political regimes and movements have seized on it for various purposes. Under the Japanese, it was used to attest to the “barbarity” of Taiwan’s indigenous tribes; the Nationalist regime cited the uprising as proof of the Taiwanese peoples’ heroism and solidarity with the Chinese in resisting the Japanese; and pro-independence groups in Taiwan have portrayed the Seediq people and their history as exemplars of Taiwan’s “authentic” cultural traditions, which stand apart from that of mainland China. This book brings together leading scholars to provide new perspectives on one of the most traumatic episodes in Taiwan’s modern history and its fraught legacies. Contributors from a variety of disciplines revisit the Musha Incident and its afterlife in history, literature, film, art, and popular culture. They unravel the complexities surrounding it by confronting a history of exploitation, contradictions, and misunderstandings. The book also features conversations with influential cultural figures in Taiwan who have attempted to tell the story of the uprising.

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  • Author : 松本曉美
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book written by 松本曉美 and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Savages   Scoundrels

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  • Author : Paul VanDevelder
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2009-04-21
  • ISBN : 0300142501
  • Pages : 351 pages

Download or read book Savages Scoundrels written by Paul VanDevelder and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Coyote Warrior demolishes myths about America’s westward expansion and uncovers the federal Indian policy that shaped the republic. What really happened in the early days of our nation? How was it possible for white settlers to march across the entire continent, inexorably claiming Native American lands for themselves? Who made it happen, and why? This gripping book tells America’s story from a new perspective, chronicling the adventures of our forefathers and showing how a legacy of repeated betrayals became the bedrock on which the republic was built. Paul VanDevelder takes as his focal point the epic federal treaty ratified in 1851 at Horse Creek, formally recognizing perpetual ownership by a dozen Native American tribes of 1.1 million square miles of the American West. The astonishing and shameful story of this broken treaty—one of 371 Indian treaties signed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—reveals a pattern of fraudulent government behavior that again and again displaced Native Americans from their lands. VanDevelder describes the path that led to the genocide of the American Indian; those who participated in it, from cowboys and common folk to aristocrats and presidents; and how the history of the immoral treatment of Indians through the twentieth century has profound social, economic, and political implications for America even today. “[A] refreshingly new intellectual and legalistic approach to the complex relations between European Americans and Native Americans…. This superlative work deserves close attention…. Highly recommended.”—M. L. Tate, Choice “The haunting story stays with you well after you have turned the last page.”—Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia

Book Conversations on Political Economy

Download or read book Conversations on Political Economy written by Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lawyers and Savages

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  • Author : Kaius Tuori
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-09-19
  • ISBN : 1317815998
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Lawyers and Savages written by Kaius Tuori and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal primitivism was a complex phenomenon that combined the study of early European legal traditions with studies of the legal customs of indigenous peoples. Lawyers and Savages: Ancient History and Legal Realism in the Making of Legal Anthropology explores the rise and fall of legal primitivism, and its connection to the colonial encounter. Through examples such as blood feuds, communalism, ordeals, ritual formalism and polygamy, this book traces the intellectual revolution of legal anthropology and demonstrates how this scholarship had a clear impact in legitimating the colonial experience. Detailing how legal realism drew on anthropology in order to help counter the hypothetical constructs of legal formalism, this book also shows how, despite their explicit rejection, the central themes of primitive law continue to influence current ideas – about indigenous legal systems, but also of the place and role of law in development. Written in an engaging style and rich in examples from history and literature, this book will be invaluable to those with interests in legal realism, legal history or legal anthropology.

Book First Lessons in Civil Government

Download or read book First Lessons in Civil Government written by Jesse Macy and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book De Scribing Empire

Download or read book De Scribing Empire written by Alan Lawson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De-Scribing Empire is a stunning collection of first-class essays. Collectively they examine the formative role of books, writing and textuality in imperial control and the fashioning of colonial world-views. The volume as a whole puts forward strategies for understanding and neutralising that control, and as such is a major contribution to the field. It will be invaluable for students in post-colonialist criticism.

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  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 3385387752
  • Pages : 602 pages

Download or read book written by and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Island of Formosa

Download or read book The Island of Formosa written by James Wheeler Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aboriginal Black Power and the Rise of the Australian Black Panther Party  1967 1972

Download or read book Aboriginal Black Power and the Rise of the Australian Black Panther Party 1967 1972 written by Alyssa L. Trometter and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining transnational ties between the USA and Australia, this book explores the rise of the Aboriginal Black Power Movement in the 1960s and early 1970s. Aboriginal adaptation of the American Black Power movement paved the way for future forms of radical Aboriginal resistance, including the eventual emergence of the Australian Black Panther Party. Through analysis of archival material, including untouched government records, previously unexamined newspapers and interviews conducted with both Australian and American activists, this book investigates the complex and varied process of developing the Black Power movement in a uniquely Australian context. Providing a social and political account of Australian activism across Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, the author illustrates the fragmentation of Aboriginal Black Power, marked by its different leaders, protests and propaganda.