Conquest How Societies Overwhelm Others

by Day, David

• ISBN13: 9780195340112
• ISBN10: 0195340116
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The story of conquest through the ages-from the Normans in England to the Chinese in Tibet, the British and Americans in North America to the Germans in Poland. Award-winning historian David Day explains how conquerors have triumphed, how they have legitimated their conquests, and what the consequences have been for the conquerors themselves and for their victims. Book jacket.

Author Biography

David Day is Visiting Professor at the Centre for Pacific and American Studies, University of Tokyo. He was previously Professor of Australian History at University College Dublin and a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. His many books include best-selling histories of the Second World War, prize-winning biographies, and a study of Winston Churchill and Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies that is presently being made into a television documentary. He has also written a highly-praised history of Australia, Claiming a Continent. His books have won or been short-listed for major literary prizes and have been translated into several languages.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
List of Plates	p. xiv
List of Maps	p. xv
Photographic Acknowledgements	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
Staking a Legal Claim	p. 11
The Power of Maps	p. 28
Claiming by Naming	p. 49
Supplanting the Savages	p. 69
By Right of Conquest	p. 92
Defending the Conquered Territory	p. 112
Foundation Stories	p. 132
Tilling the Soil	p. 159
The Genocidal Imperative	p. 176
Peopling the Land	p. 198
The Never-Ending Journey	p. 223
Endnotes	p. 239
Select Bibliography	p. 265
Index	p. 277
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