2013/01/01 by Walter L. Hixson · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Canadian Identity and History #Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights #Australian History and Society
paper · doi:10.1057/9781137374264_1
openalex publication_date 2013/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
T his book analyzes settler colonialism over the sweep of Euro-American history. It is neither a simple narrative of conquest nor a study devoted solely to ferreting out indigenous agency within the colonial encounter. The narrative instead identifies ambivalences—the myriad ways in which both the “colonizer” and the “colonized” reconfigured their identities as they traded, allied, assimilated, negotiated, resisted, and otherwise carved out “third spaces” within the colonial encounter. Despite these ambivalences, American settler colonialism ultimately drove an ethnic cleansing of the continent. 1 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.