Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century: Projects, Practices, Legacies

by Elkins; Caroline

• ISBN13: 9780415949439
• ISBN10: 0415949432
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-08-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Centuryis a powerful and thought-provoking volume of original essays that examine how settler communities have shaped landholding policies, laws, and race relations within colonized territories throughout the world. Historians of Japan, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East offer a compelling new interpretation of twentieth-century imperialism and establish an analytical framework for understanding the impact of settler communities in a variety of contexts. Case studies include the European settler projects in Africa, expansionist efforts by the by Japanese in Korea and Manchuria, Nazi attempts to settle ethnic Germans in Poland, and contested settlements in Israel and Palestine.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction Settler Colonialism: A Concept and Its Uses	1	(20)
CAROLINE ELKINS AND SUSAN PEDERSEN
Part I Creating Settler Colonies: Utopian Visions and Totalizing Worlds	21	(114)
1 Malthusian Dreams, Colonial Imaginary: The Oriental Development Company and Japanese Emigration to Korea	25	(16)
HYUNG GU LYNN
2 Settler Citizenship in the Jewish Colonization of Palestine	41	(18)
GERSHON SHAFIR
3 Between Empire and Nation: Settler Colonialism in Manchukuo	59	(20)
PRASENJIT DUARA
4 Settling against the Tide: The Layered Contradictions of Twentieth-Century Portuguese Settlement in Mozambique	79	(16)
JEANNE MARIE PENVENNE
5 Management and Manipulation: Nazi Settlement Planners and Ethnic German Settlers in Occupied Poland	95	(18)
ELIZABETH HARVEY
6 Settler Colonialism at the Bar of the League of Nations	113	(24)
SUSAN PEDERSEN
Part II Settler Colonialism in Action: Institutions and Practices	135	(88)
7 Mission Législatrice: Extraterritoriality and Japan's Legal Mission to Korea in the Early Twentieth Century	137	(16)
ALEXIS DUDDEN
8 Brokers of Empire: Japanese and Korean Business Elites in Colonial Korea	153	(18)
JUN UCHIDA
9 Settler Colonization in the Middle East and North Africa: Its Economic Rationale	171	(12)
ROGER OWEN
10 Racial Violence and the Origins of Segregation in South Africa	183	(20)
IVAN EVANS
11 Race, Citizenship, and Governance: Settler Tyranny and the End of Empire	203	(20)
CAROLINE ELKINS
Part III Settler Communities after Decolonization: Myths, Memories, Strategies	223	(64)
12 The "Southern" World of the Pieds Noirs: References to and Representations of Europeans in Colonial Algeria	225	(18)
BENJAMIN STORA
13 Imperial Remnants: The Repatriates in Postwar Japan	243	(14)
LORI WATT
14 Unsettling the Metropole: Race and Settler Reincorporation in Postcolonial Portugal	257	(14)
STEPHEN C. LUBKEMANN
15 "Sleep with a Southwester": Monuments and Settler Identity in Namibia	271	(16)
JEREMY SILVESTER
Contributors	287	(4)
Index	291