Genocide on Settler Frontiers: When Hunter-Gatherers and Commercial Stock Farmers Clash

Published by Berghahn Books 2015

Genocide on Settler Frontiers

When Hunter-Gatherers and Commercial Stock Farmers Clash

Edited by: Mohamed Adhikari

Volume 22 in the series War and Genocide

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782387398

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About this book

European colonial conquest included many instances of indigenous peoples being exterminated. Cases where invading commercial stock farmers clashed with hunter-gatherers were particularly destructive, often resulting in a degree of dispossession and slaughter that destroyed the ability of these societies to reproduce themselves. The experience of aboriginal peoples in the settler colonies of southern Africa, Australia, North America, and Latin America bears this out. The frequency with which encounters of this kind resulted in the annihilation of forager societies raises the question of whether these conflicts were inherently genocidal, an issue not yet addressed by scholars in a systematic way.

Author / Editor information

Mohamed Adhikari is an Associate Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town.

Reviews

“This volume adds value not only to our knowledge of (often, but by no means always) genocidal practices in encounters between early settler colonialism and local hunter-gatherer communities. It also offers striking new aspects in the analysis of the settler communities and their motives. The comparison from global perspectives thereby allows lessons to be drawn that are not necessarily as obvious as they would have been had the studies been confined to a specific region. Further studies on settler colonialism and local interaction – as well as the studies on forms and practices of genocide – will greatly benefit from the insights presented in this publication.” • Africa Spectrum

“By highlighting the destructive impact of commercial stock farming and its connection to international markets, Genocide on Settler Frontiers draws attention to a neglected yet crucial element in the fatal nexus between colonialism and genocide. Covering cases in Africa, Australia, and North America, this is an original and much-needed comparative volume.” • A. Dirk Moses, European University Institute, Florence

“This collection brings cutting-edge research into the history of genocidal situations in southern Africa, Australia, and North America by younger as well as established scholars, illuminating the history of not only modernity but also world history.” • John Docker, University of Sydney

“The book is on the cutting edge of scholarship on settler genocide. The focus on the conflict between hunter-gatherers and commercial stock farmers advances our understanding of these murderous conflicts.” • Norman Naimark, Stanford University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Notes on the Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Chapter One ‘We are Determined to Exterminate Them’: The Genocidal Impetus Behind Commercial Stock Farmer Invasions of Hunter-Gatherer Territories Mohamed Adhikari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter Two ‘The Bushman is a Wild Animal to be Shot at Sight’: Annihilation of the Cape Colony’s Foraging Societies by Stock-Farming Settlers in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries1 Mohamed Adhikari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
Chapter Three ‘Like a Wild Beast, He Can be Got for the Catching’: Child Forced Labour and the ‘Taming’ of the San along the Cape’s North-Eastern Frontier, c.1806–18301 Jared McDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
Chapter Four ‘We Exterminated Them, and Dr. Philip Gave the Country’: The Griqua People and the Elimination of San from South Africa’s Transorangia Region Edward Cavanagh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Chapter Five. Vogelfrei and Besitzlos, with no Concept of Property: Divergent Settler Responses to Bushmen and Damara in German South West Africa Robert Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
Chapter Six. Why Racial Paternalism and not Genocide? The Case of the Ghanzi Bushmen of Bechuanaland Mathias Guenther Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Chapter Seven. The Destruction of Hunter-Gatherer Societies on the Pastoralist Frontier: The Cape and Australia Compared Nigel Penn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter Eight ‘No Right to the Land’: The Role of the Wool Industry in the Destruction of Aboriginal Societies in Tasmania (1817–1832) and Victoria (1835–1851) Compared Lyndall Ryan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Chapter Nine. Indigenous Dispossession and Pastoral Employment in Western Australia during the Nineteenth Century: Implications for Understanding Colonial Forms of Genocide Ann Curthoys Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Chapter Ten ‘A Fierce and Irresistible Cavalry’: Pastoralists, Homesteaders and Hunters on the American Plains Frontier Tony Barta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Chapter Eleven. Dispossession, Ecocide, Genocide: Cattle Ranching and Agriculture in the Destruction of Hunting Cultures on the Canadian Prairies Sidney L. Harring Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Chapter Twelve. Seeing Receding Hunter-Gatherers and Advancing Commercial Pastoralists: ‘Nomadisation’, Transfer, Genocide Lorenzo Veracini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 370
Keywords: Genocide History; Colonial History

eBook

Published: June 1, 2015
ISBN: 9781782387398