Colonial Violence and Monuments in Global History (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Prescott, Cynthia C.; Lahti, Janne

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book tackles the historical relationship between colonial violence and monuments in Africa, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, North America, and Australia. The authors ask similar questions about monuments in each location and answer them following a parallel structure that encourages comparison, highlighting common themes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000926842
• Artikelnr.: 68281767

Autorenporträt

Cynthia C. Prescott is Professor of History at the University of North Dakota, USA. She is author of Pioneer Mother Monuments: Constructing Cultural Memory (2019), and Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier (2007). Janne Lahti is a historian working at the University of Helsinki as Academy of Finland Research Fellow. He has published seven books, including Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film, with Rebecca Weaver-Hightower (2020), and The American West and the World: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Looking Globally at Monuments, Violence, and Colonial
Legacies 1. Visualizing Juan de Oñate's Colonial Legacies in New Mexico 2.
De-Colonizing Australia's Commemorative Landscape: "Truth-Telling,"
Contestation and the Dialogical Turn 3. The Pinjarra Massacre in the Age of
the Statue Wars 4. Südwester Reiter: Fear, Belonging, and Settler Colonial
Violence in Namibia 5. South Africa's Voortrekker Monument and 1820
Settlers National Monument: Monuments to Cultural Violence 6. The Ajnala
Massacre of 1857 and the Politics of Colonial Violence and Commemoration in
Contemporary India 7. Belgian Monuments of Colonial Violence: the
Commemoration of Martyred Missionaries