Settling for Less (eBook)

Why States Colonize and Why They Stop

Lachlan McNamee (Autor)

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2023
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23782-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Why countries colonize the lands of indigenous people Over the past few centuries, vast areas of the world have been violently colonized by settlers. But why did states like Australia and the United States stop settling frontier lands during the twentieth century? At the same time, why did states loudly committed to decolonization like Indonesia and China start settling the lands of such minorities as the West Papuans and Uyghurs? Settling for Less traces this bewildering historical reversal, explaining when and why indigenous peoples suffer displacement at the hands of settlers.Lachlan McNamee challenges the notion that settler colonialism can be explained by economics or racial ideologies. He tells a more complex story about state building and the conflicts of interest between indigenous peoples, states, and settlers. Drawing from a rich array of historical evidence, McNamee shows that states generally colonize frontier areas in response to security concerns. Elite schemes to populate contested frontiers with loyal settlers, however, often fail. As societies grow wealthier and cities increasingly become magnets for migration, states ultimately lose the power to settle frontier lands.Settling for Less uncovers the internal dynamics of settler colonialism and the diminishing power of colonizers in a rapidly urbanizing world. Contrasting successful and failed colonization projects in Australia, Indonesia, China, and beyond, this book demonstrates that economic developmentby thwarting colonizationhas proven a powerful force for indigenous self-determination.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.1.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 30 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: abdication • Alfred Deakin • Al Jazeera • Anti-Imperialism • Australia • Badajoz • Bandung Conference • Benny Wenda • Border Zone • Capital Accumulation • China • China–United States relations • Colonialism • Colonization • Conflation • Cook Islands • Cost • Court Painter • Decimation (Roman army) • Decolonization • Deportation • ethnic cleansing • ethnic group • Ethnic majority • European Colonialism • Fatalism • Grasberg • Human Migration • Ideology • imperialism • Indigenous peoples • Indonesia • Indonesian National Armed Forces • inference • Institute of Southeast Asian Studies • International Commission of Jurists • Islamic terrorism • Jayapura • Juan de Pareja • Karl Marx • Lebanese Civil War • left-wing politics • livery • Mainland Australia • Makassar • Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs • Medina del Campo • Melanesians • Merauke • Merdeka • Metonymy • Metropole • Metzer • military base • minority group • Modernization Theory • Nationalism • natural experiment • Northern Australia • Northern Territory • north–south divide • Overskirt • Oxford University Press • Papua New Guinea • Paramount leader • Patrimonialism • Peace Now • Philippines • Philosophy of Culture • political status • Politics • Qiemo County • Republics of the Soviet Union • residence • Reuters • Rhodesia • Rwandan Civil War • Settler Colonialism • Sino-Soviet relations • Sino-Soviet split • Sorong (city) • Sovereignty • Soviet Union • statistical significance • Straits Settlements • Sukarno • Tarim Basin • Tashkent • The Japan Times • Theory and Practice • Tokelau • University of Hawaii Press • Vladimir Putin • West Papua (province) • white movement • World War II • Writing • Xinjiang • Yearbook • Zionism
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23782-4 / 0691237824
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23782-4 / 9780691237824