Dark Vanishings : Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930 /

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Patrick Brantlinger here examines the commonly held nineteenth-century view that all "primitive" or "savage" races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction. Warlike propensities and presumed cannibalism were regarded as simultaneously noble and suicidal, acceler...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brantlinger, Patrick, 1941-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Theorieën.
Genocide.
Inheemse volken.
Völkermord
Indigenes Volk
Social Darwinism.
Indigenous peoples.
Eurocentrism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Race relations > Violent > Genocide.
Indigenous peoples > Pacific > Maori.
Indigenous peoples > North America.
indigenous people.
Eurocentrisme.
Darwinisme social.
Autochtones.
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
New Zealand (N.Z.)
Pacific Islands.
Tasmania (Tas.)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Aboriginal matters
  • 2. Pre-Darwinian theories on the extinction of primitive races
  • 3. Vanishing Americans
  • 4. Humanitarian causes: antislavery and saving aboriginals
  • 5. The Irish famine
  • 6. The dusk of the dreamtime
  • 7. Islands of death and the devil
  • 8. Darwin and after
  • 9. White twilights.

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