Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples(Critical Themes in World History)

'This book explores settler colonial genocides in a global perspective and over the long duree. It does so systematically and compellingly, as it investigates how settler colonial expansion at times created conditions for genocidal violence, and the ways in which genocide was at times perpetrated on settler colonial frontiers. This volume will prove invaluable to teachers and students of imperialism, colonialism, and human rights.' -Lorenzo Veracini, Swinburne University of Technology, and author ofThe World Turned Inside Out: Settler Colonialism as a Political Idea

About the Author :
Mohamed Adhikari is Emeritus Associate Professor of History, University of Cape Town and received the inaugural Impact Award from the International Network of Genocide Scholars in 2020.

Review :
"A succinct, insightful, and highly readable text discussing an issue that deserves to be integral to any world history course. Using four finely crafted, yet widely dispersed, case studies Adhikari strikingly shows how vulnerability and resistance occur as the waves of global capitalism hit indigenous societies." —Robert Gordon, University of Vermont “Illuminating and compelling. This is a volume about genocide, a recurrent phenomenon in world history that, disturbingly, has created our modernity. Mohamed Adhikari equips the reader with a sound conceptual introduction, then provides four detailed yet clear accounts of genocide in the Canary Islands, Queensland, California, and German Southwest Africa. He has expertly provided the big picture as well as the specifics true to each history. Primary sources from each episode invite the reader’s participation in analysis. A book with which to think and to teach others.” —Lora Wildenthal, Rice University "From its heartbreaking cover illustration, taken from 'Oscar‘s sketchbook'—a young Queensland Aboriginal boy's record of life in the 1880s, depicting black shooting black in the name of white settlers--until its exhaustively researched final pages, Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocide of Indigenous Peoples tells harrowing stories that must be read, studied and digested by all who wish to understand and move forward from bloody and destructive pasts.        "Adhikari argues incontestably that genocide persists and that only by understanding the past and applying it to the present can societies look towards a peaceful future. . . . [He] delivers what he promises, starting with his preliminary exploration of essential concepts related to genocide: the meaning of genocide itself, the settler colonialism that initiated it, focusing on Western Imperialism as a result of industrialisation; civilian-driven versus state-directed violence, ‘exterminatory violence‘, and their consequences in the devastation of Indigenous societies themselves.         "In the words of the series editor, Alfred J Andrea, 'this book should be required reading by every student of world history, but especially by those who enjoy the fruits of lands wrested at great human expense from Indigenous Peoples'." —Margaret Warburton, University of Western Australia, in Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies