"The Touch Of Civilization": Comparing American And Russian Internal Colonization

ISBN: 9781607325499 出版年：2017 页码：311 Sabol, Steven University Press of Colorado

The touch of civilization is a comparative history of the united states and russia during their efforts to colonize and assimilate two indigenous groups of people within their national borders: the sioux of the great plains and the kazakhs of the eurasian steppe. In the revealing juxtaposition of these two cases author steven sabol elucidates previously unexplored connections between the state building and colonizing projects these powers pursued in the nineteenth century.   this critical examination of internal colonization—a form of contiguous continental expansion, imperialism, and colonialism that incorporated indigenous lands and peoples—draws a corollary between the westward-moving american pioneer and the eastward-moving russian peasant. Sabol examines how and why perceptions of the sioux and kazakhs as ostensibly uncivilized peoples and the northern plains and the kazakh steppe as “uninhabited” regions that ought to be settled reinforced american and russian government sedentarization policies and land allotment programs.