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Summary:

This work compares the process and practice of nineteenth-century American and Russian internal colonization, a form of contiguous, continental expansion, imperialism and colonialism that incorporated indigenous lands and peoples. It provides a critical, comparative examination of internal colonization exercised by the United States and Russia and experienced by two indigenous populations, the Sioux and the Kazakhs. In particular, it examines how and why perceptions of the Sioux and Kazakhs as ostensibly uncivilized peoples, and similarly held American and Russian perceptions of 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 among the Sioux and Kazakhs. In addition, it compares the processes practiced by the two empires and the various forms of Sioux and Kazakh martial, political, social and culture resistance evident throughout the 19th century.

Table of Contents:

• The Sioux and the Kazakhs
• Pre-nineteenth-century expansion
• Conquest and martial resistance
• Through the colonial looking-glass
• Internal colonization
• Assimilation and identity.

Author/Creator:

Sabol, Steven , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The touch of civilization: comparing American and Russian internal colonization [by Sabol, S.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Touch of civilization [by Sabol, S.] (Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2016] — ISBN 9781607325499; LCCN 2016036164; OCLC Number 956775365)

Subjects:

Comparative civilization

Imperialism — History

United States — Territorial expansion

Russia — Territorial expansion

Collective memory — Russia

Collective memory — United States

Dakota Indians — History

Kazakhs — History

Imperialism

Territorial expansion

Collective memory

Dakota Indians

Kazakhs

Russia

Great Plains

United States

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

CB451 .S236 2016eb

ISBNs:

9781607325505 (electronic bk.)
1607325500 (electronic bk.)
9781607325499 [Invalid]
1607325497 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

978350012