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

By:

Brantlinger, Patrick, 1941-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003Description: 1 online resource (x, 248 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780801468681
080146868X
0801468671
9780801468674
1336207876
9781336207875

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dark vanishingsDDC classification:

306/.08 22

LOC classification:

GN380 .B73 2003eb

Other classification:

71.62
73.46
cci1icc
LB 31960
MD 8980
ME 8800

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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.

Summary: Patrick Brantlinger here examines the commonly held nineteenth-century view that all "primitive" or "savage" races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction. Warlike propensities and presumed cannibalism were regarded as simultaneously noble and suicidal, accelerants of the downfall of other races after contact with white civilization. Brantlinger finds at the heart of this belief the stereotype of the self-exterminating savage, or the view that "savagery" is a sufficient explanation for the ultimate disappearance of "savages" from the grand theater of world history. -- from back cover

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

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Patrick Brantlinger here examines the commonly held nineteenth-century view that all "primitive" or "savage" races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction. Warlike propensities and presumed cannibalism were regarded as simultaneously noble and suicidal, accelerants of the downfall of other races after contact with white civilization. Brantlinger finds at the heart of this belief the stereotype of the self-exterminating savage, or the view that "savagery" is a sufficient explanation for the ultimate disappearance of "savages" from the grand theater of world history. -- from back cover

English.

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