Dark vanishings : discourse on the extinction of primitive races, 1800-1930 / Patrick Brantlinger.

  • Brantlinger, Patrick, 1941-
Date:
2003
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Publication/Creation

Ithaca, N.Y. ; London : Cornell University Press, 2003.

Physical description

x, 248 pages ; 23 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-241) and index.

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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  • 0801438098
  • 0801488761