Edward Cavanagh has received degrees from universities in Australia, South Africa and Canada. He has published in the fields of history and law, including Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa (Palgrave, 2013) and The Griqua Past and the Limits of South African History, 1902-1994 (Peter Lang Publishers, 2011).

Lorenzo Veracini is Associate Professor in History at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on the comparative history of colonial systems and on settler colonialism. His publications include The Settler Colonial Present (Palgrave 2015), Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (Palgrave, 2010) and Israel and Settler Society (Pluto, 2006). Lorenzo is editor in chief of Settler Colonial Studies.

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List of contributors

Introduction: settler colonialism as a distinct mode of domination

PART I

Settler colonialism in the 'Old World

Introduction to Part I

1 - Settler colonialism from the Neo-Assyrians to the Romans

2 - Settler colonialism in ancient Israel

3 - Mediterranean and Atlantic settler colonialism from the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth centuries

4 - Settler colonialism in Ireland from the English conquest to the nineteenth century

5 - Northern Ireland and settler colonialism to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998

PART II

The Americas

Introduction to Part II

6 - Colonies of settlement and settler colonialism in Northeastern North America, 1450-1850

7 - Atlantic North America from contact to the late nineteenth century

8 - Settler colonialism in New Spain and the early Mexican republic

9 - Northwestern North America (Canadian West) to 1900

10 - Settler colonialism in postcolonial Latin America

11 - Settler colonialism and the consolidation of Canada in the twentieth century

12 - Adaptation, resistance, and representation in the modern US settler state

PART III

Africa

Introduction to Part III

13 - Settler colonialism in South Africa, 1652-1899

14 - French Algeria, 1830-1962

15 - Americo Liberia as a settler society

16 - Settler colonialism in Kenya, 1880-1950

17 - Settler rule in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1979

18 - The Italian fascist settler empire in Ethiopia, 1936-1941

19 - White settler politics and Euro-African nationalism in Angola, 1945-1975

20 - Settler colonialism in South Africa: land, labour, and transformation, 1880-2015

PART IV

Asia

Introduction to Part IV

21 - Russian settler colonialism

22 - Settler colonialism in the making of Japan's Hokkaid¿

23 - Theorizing Zionist settler colonialism in Palestine

24 - A dying settler colonialism: Israel and the Palestinians after 1948

PART V

Australasia

Introduction to Part V

25 - Australian settler colonialism over the long nineteenth century: new insights into history, gender and biopolitics

26 - Settler colonialism in New Zealand, 1840-1907

27 - Settler colonialism in New Caledonia, 1853 to the present

28 - Settler Australia in the twentieth century

29 - Settler colonialism in twentieth-century New Zealand

Index