Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century

by Caroline Elkins

• ISBN13: 9780415949248
• ISBN10: 0415949246
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2012-11-12
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

"Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century" is 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	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Settler Colonialism: A Concept and Its Uses	p. 1
Creating Settler Colonies: Utopian Visions and Totalizing Worlds	p. 21
Malthusian Dreams, Colonial Imaginary: The Oriental Development Company and Japanese Emigration to Korea	p. 25
Settler Citizenship in the Jewish Colonization of Palestine	p. 41
Between Empire and Nation: Settler Colonialism in Manchukuo	p. 59
Settling against the Tide: The Layered Contradictions of Twentieth-Century Portuguese Settlement in Mozambique	p. 79
Management and Manipulation: Nazi Settlement Planners and Ethnic German Settlers in Occupied Poland	p. 95
Settler Colonialism at the Bar of the League of Nations	p. 113
Settler Colonialism in Action: Institutions and Practices	p. 135
Mission Legislatrice: Extraterritoriality and Japan's Legal Mission to Korea in the Early Twentieth Century	p. 137
Brokers of Empire: Japanese and Korean Business Elites in Colonial Korea	p. 153
Settler Colonization in the Middle East and North Africa: Its Economic Rationale	p. 171
Racial Violence and the Origins of Segregation in South Africa	p. 183
Race, Citizenship, and Governance: Settler Tyranny and the End of Empire	p. 203
Settler Communities after Decolonization: Myths, Memories, Strategies	p. 223
The "Southern" World of the Pieds Noirs: References to and Representations of Europeans in Colonial Algeria	p. 225
Imperial Remnants: The Repatriates in Postwar Japan	p. 243
Unsettling the Metropole: Race and Settler Reincorporation in Postcolonial Portugal	p. 257
"Sleep with a Southwester": Monuments and Settler Identity in Namibia	p. 271
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