The Testing Grounds of Modern Empire : The Making of Colonial Racial Order in the American Ohio Country and the South African Eastern Cape, 1770s-1850s

Christoph Strobel

ISBN 10: 1433101238 / ISBN 13: 9781433101236

Editore: Peter Lang, Peter Lang, 2007

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Testing Grounds of Modern Empire examines the transformation and the gradual creation of colonial racial order on an American and a South African frontier, respectively. This study focuses on the Ohio Country (a region including parts of present-day western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan) and the South African Eastern Cape (a region located on the southeastern tip of the African continent) in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth century. This book compares and juxtaposes the processes of indigenous dispossession and white efforts at undermining Native American and African sovereignty. While the scenarios in the Ohio Country and the Eastern Cape did not repeat themselves identically in other locations, comparable patterns would emerge in later years as the United States expanded westward and Britain expanded into southern and eastern Africa. Christoph Strobel explores how various white and indigenous people tried to shape the creation of colonial racial order in the two regions. An emerging compromise among white settlers, government officials, and other white interest groups gradually led to the implementation of systems of colonial racial order in both the Ohio Country and the Eastern Cape by the mid-nineteenth century. This transformation, shaped by violence, conflict, and cooperation, left a legacy that influenced the development of colonization and the contested construction and representation of race in the United States, southern Africa, and around the world.

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• Titolo: The Testing Grounds of Modern Empire : The Making of Colonial Racial Order in the American Ohio Country and the South African Eastern Cape, 1770s-1850s
• Editore: Peter Lang, Peter Lang
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1433101238
• ISBN 13: 9781433101236
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 236 L x 165 A x 16 P (millimetri) 236 millimetri di larghezza per 165 millimetri di altezza per 16 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 489 grammi

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This work by Strobel (history, U. of Massachusetts at Lowell) is a comparative history of colonial encroachment on the American frontier of Ohio Country (which includes parts of present day western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan) and the South African Eastern Cape region that is centrally concerned with the emergence and transformation of the regions' colonial racial orders--a colonial racial order being "a system where a white settler state imposed its control over indigenous populations, a power relationship that over time increasingly manifested itself through "racial differentiation."" He argues that the construction of these racial orders of racism, racial separation, and decentralized power and authority, while never uncontested, served as imperial testing grounds foreshadowing the establishment of a global order of racial supremacy and empire that was to spread around the world through the 19th and 20th centuries. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Informazioni sull?autore

The Author : Christoph Strobel is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is the co-author, alongside Alice Nash, of Daily Life of Native Americans from Post-Columbian through Nineteenth-Century America (2006). He is also the author of several articles.