Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism

Edward Cavanagh has received degrees 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 (Palgrave, 2013) and The Griqua Past and the Limits of South African History, 1902–1994 (Peter Lang Publishers, 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 (Palgrave 2015), Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (Palgrave, 2010) and Israel and Settler Society (Pluto, 2006). Lorenzo is editor in chief of Settler Colonial Studies.

"This volume shows how the deep history of settler colonialism has shaped our world today. As settlers move to new lands, the result is almost always unsettling. We need studies like this to better appreciate the ongoing consequences of our shared colonial legacies."Coel Kirkby, University of Melbourne, Australia

• AcknowledgementsList of contributorsIntroduction: settler colonialism as a distinct mode of dominationPART ISettler colonialism in the ‘Old WorldIntroduction to Part I1 – Settler colonialism from the Neo-Assyrians to the Romans2 – Settler colonialism in ancient Israel3 – Mediterranean and Atlantic settler colonialism from the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth centuries4 - Settler colonialism in Ireland from the English conquest to the nineteenth century5 - Northern Ireland and settler colonialism to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998PART IIThe AmericasIntroduction to Part II6 - Colonies of settlement and settler colonialism in Northeastern North America, 1450-18507 – Atlantic North America from contact to the late nineteenth century8 - Settler colonialism in New Spain and the early Mexican republic9 - Northwestern North America (Canadian West) to 190010 - Settler colonialism in postcolonial Latin America11 - Settler colonialism and the consolidation of Canada in the twentieth century12 - Adaptation, resistance, and representation in the modern US settler statePART IIIAfricaIntroduction to Part III13 - Settler colonialism in South Africa, 1652–189914 - French Algeria, 1830-196215 - Americo Liberia as a settler society16 - Settler colonialism in Kenya, 1880-195017 - Settler rule in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-197918 - The Italian fascist settler empire in Ethiopia, 1936-194119 - White settler politics and Euro-African nationalism in Angola, 1945-197520 - Settler colonialism in South Africa: land, labour, and transformation, 1880-2015PART IV AsiaIntroduction to Part IV21 – Russian settler colonialism22 – Settler colonialism in the making of Japan’s Hokkaidō23 - Theorizing Zionist settler colonialism in Palestine24 - A dying settler colonialism: Israel and the Palestinians after 1948PART VAustralasiaIntroduction to Part V25 - Australian settler colonialism over the long nineteenth century: new insights into history, gender and biopolitics26 - Settler colonialism in New Zealand, 1840-190727 - Settler colonialism in New Caledonia, 1853 to the present28 - Settler Australia in the twentieth century29 - Settler colonialism in twentieth-century New ZealandIndex