Colonialism and Genocide

This book publishes Lemkin’s account of the genocide of the Aboriginal Tasmanians for the first time and chapters cover:

• the exterminatory rhetoric of racist discourses before the ‘scientific racism’ of the mid-nineteenth century
• Charles Darwin’s preoccupation with the extinction of peoples in the face of European colonialism,
• a reconstruction of a virtually unknown case of ‘subaltern genocide’
• global perspective on the links between modernity and the Holocaust

Social theorists and historians alike will find this a must-read.