- Summary
- Book Description: In this bold, sweeping book, David Day surveys the ways in which one nation or society has supplanted another, and then sought to justify its occupation -- from the English in Australia and North America, the Normans in England, and the Spanish in Mexico to the Japanese in Korea and the Chinese in Tibet. Human history has been marked by territorial aggression and expansion, an endless cycle of ownership claims by dominant cultures over territory occupied by peoples unable to resist their advance. Day outlines the strategies, violent and subtle, such dominant cultures have used to stake and bolster their claims -- by redrawing maps, rewriting history, recourse to legal argument, creative renaming, use of foundation stories, tilling of the soil, colonization, and ultimately outright subjugation and even genocide. In the end the claims they make reveal their own sense of identity and self-justifying place in the world. Conquest is an accessible and captivating macro-narrative about empire, expansion, and dispossession.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Day, David, 1949-
- Published
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012
- Contents
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Preface
List of plates
List of maps
Photographic acknowledgments
Staking a legal claim
Power of maps
Claiming by naming
Supplanting the savages
By right of conquest
Defending the conquered territory
Foundation stories
Tilling the soil
Genocidal imperative
Peopling the land
Never-ending journey
Endnotes
Select bibliography
Index.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- List of plates -- List of maps -- Photographic acknowledgments -- Staking a legal claim -- Power of maps -- Claiming by naming -- Supplanting the savages -- By right of conquest -- Defending the conquered territory -- Foundation stories -- Tilling the soil -- Genocidal imperative -- Peopling the land -- Never-ending journey -- Endnotes -- Select bibliography -- Index.
