The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism

496 Pages·2017·4.4 MB·English

by  Edward Cavanagh

THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK
OF THE HISTORY OF SETTLER
COLONIALISM
The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism examines the global history of settler
colonialism as a distinct mode of domination from ancient times to the present day. It explores
the ways in which new polities were established in freshly discovered ‘New Worlds’ and covers the
history of many countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Japan, South Africa, Liberia,
Algeria, Canada and the USA.
Chronologically as well as geographically wide-reaching, this volume focuses on an extensive
array of topics and regions ranging from settler colonialism in the Neo-Assyrian and Roman
empires to relationships between indigenes and newcomers in New Spain and the early Mexican
Republic to the settler-dominated polities of Africa during the twentieth century. Its 29 inter-
disciplinary chapters focus on single colonies or on regional developments that straddle the bor-
ders of present-day states, on successful settlements that would go on to become powerful settler
nations, on failed settler colonies and on the historiographies of these experiences.
Taking a fundamentally international approach to the topic, this book analyses the varied
experiences of settler colonialism in countries around the world. With a synthesizing yet origi-
nal introduction, this is a landmark contribution to the emerging field of settler colonial studies
and will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the global history of imperialism and
colonialism.
Edward Cavanagh is the Isaac Newton Trust Research Fellow at Downing College, Cam-
bridge. His degrees have come from universities in Australia, South Africa and Canada. He has
published in the fields of history and law, including Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South
Africa (2013) and The Griqua Past and the Limits of South African History, 1902–1994 (2011).
Lorenzo Veracini is Associate Professor in History at the Swinburne University of Technology
in Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on the comparative history of colonial systems and
on settler colonialism. His publications include The Settler Colonial Present (2015), Settler Coloni-
alism: A Theoretical Overview (2010) and Israel and Settler Society (2006). Lorenzo is editor in chief
of Settler Colonial Studies.
THE ROUTLEDGE HISTORY HANDBOOKS
The Routledge History of the Middle East Mandates
Edited by Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan
The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism
Edited by Edward Cavanagh and Lorenzo Veracini
Forthcoming:
The Routledge Handbook of Spatial History
Edited by Ian Gregory, Don DeBats and Don Lafreniere
The Routledge Handbook of Big History
Edited by Craig Benjamin, Esther Quaedackers and David Baker
The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life
Edited by Miriam Muller
The Routledge Handbook of the History of Race and the American Military
Edited by Geoffrey W. Jensen
THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK
OF THE HISTORY OF SETTLER
COLONIALISM
Edited by Edward Cavanagh and Lorenzo Veracini
First published 2017
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
and by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
© 2017 Edward Cavanagh and Lorenzo Veracini
The right of the editors to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and
of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with
sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised
in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or
hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information
storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered
trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to
infringe.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Cavanagh, Edward, editor. | Veracini, Lorenzo, editor.
Title: The Routledge handbook of the history of settler colonialism / edited by
Edward Cavanagh and Lorenzo Veracini.
Other titles: Handbook of the history of settler colonialism
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Series: The
Routledge history handbooks | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016004657 | ISBN 9780415742160 (hardback : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781315544816 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Colonization—History. | Colonies—History. |
Colonists—History.
Classification: LCC JV61 .R68 2016 | DDC 325/.309—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016004657
ISBN: 978-0-415-74216-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-54481-6 (ebk)
Typeset in Bembo
by Apex CoVantage, LLC
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
List of contributors xi
Introduction: settler colonialism as a distinct mode of domination 1
Lorenzo Veracini
PART I
Settler colonialism in the ‘Old World’
Introduction to Part I 9
Edward Cavanagh
1 Settler colonialism from the Neo-Assyrians to the Romans 11
Mark W. Graham
2 Settler colonialism in ancient Israel 25
Pekka Pitkänen
3 Mediterranean and Atlantic settler colonialism from the late
fourteenth to the early seventeenth centuries 37
Patrick O’Flanagan
4 Settler colonialism in Ireland from the English conquest to
the nineteenth century 49
S. J. Connolly
v
Contents
5 Northern Ireland and settler colonialism to the Good Friday
agreement of 1998 65
Stephen Howe
PART II
The Americas
Introduction to Part II 77
Edward Cavanagh
6 Colonies of settlement and settler colonialism in Northeastern
North America, 1450–1850 79
John G. Reid and Thomas Peace
7 Atlantic North America from contact to the late nineteenth century 95
Matthew Crow
8 Settler colonialism in New Spain and the early Mexican Republic 109
Ignacio Martínez
9 Northwestern North America (Canadian West) to 1900 125
Laura Ishiguro
10 Settler colonialism in postcolonial Latin America 139
Michael Goebel
11 Settler colonialism and the consolidation of Canada in the
twentieth century 153
Adam J. Barker, Toby Rollo and Emma Battell Lowman
12 Adaptation, resistance and representation in the modern
US settler state 169
Walter L. Hixson
PART III
Africa
Introduction to Part III 185
Edward Cavanagh
13 Settler colonialism in South Africa, 1652–1899 187
Robert Ross
vi
Contents
14 French Algeria, 1830–1962 201
Sung Choi
15 Americo Liberia as a settler society 215
James Ciment
16 Settler colonialism in Kenya, 1880–1963 231
Will Jackson
17 Settler rule in Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1979 247
Enocent Msindo
18 The Italian fascist settler empire in Ethiopia, 1936–1941 263
Emanuele Ertola
19 White settler politics and Euro-African nationalism
in Angola, 1945–1975 277
Fernando Tavares Pimenta
20 Settler colonialism in South Africa: land, labour
and transformation, 1880–2015 291
Edward Cavanagh
PART IV
Asia
Introduction to Part IV 311
Edward Cavanagh
21 Russian settler colonialism 313
Alexander Morrison
22 Settler colonialism in the making of Japan’s Hokkaido¯ 327
Katsuya Hirano
23 Theorizing Zionist settler colonialism in Palestine 339
Gershon Shafir
24 From republic to empire: Israel and the Palestinians
after 1948 353
Arnon Degani
vii
Contents
PART V
Australasia
Introduction to Part V 369
Edward Cavanagh
25 Australian settler colonialism over the long nineteenth century 371
Penelope Edmonds and Jane Carey
26 Settler colonialism in New Zealand, 1840–1907 391
Richard S. Hill
27 Settler colonialism in New Caledonia, 1853 to the present 409
David Chappell
28 Settler Australia in the twentieth century 425
Sarah Maddison
29 Settler colonialism in twentieth-century New Zealand 439
Felicity Barnes
Index 457
viii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all: it is customary to thank the good people in the publishing house who have made a
large, edited collection possible. But in this case our gratitude it is especially warranted. A big
thank you to Amy Welmers and Eve Setch at Routledge. Both editors contributed in equal meas-
ure to the coordination and configuration of this collection.
Lorenzo: This research received no specific grant from any government funding agency or any
for-profit organisation. As a matter of fact, it was cross-subsidised by my students’ future income.
It is a remarkable vote of confidence. For this, I am immensely grateful.
Ed: This book’s authors come from various locations across the world, and their contributions
are fittingly diverse in geographical scope. They all deserve our thanks, but most especially those
for whom English is not their first language. Global history can be stubborn in this way.
ix