Colonial Violence and Monuments in Global History

Cynthia C. Prescott, Janne Lahti, Cynthia C. Prescott, Janne Lahti

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032502199
• eBook ISBN: 9781000926866
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

This book tackles the historical relationship between colonial violence and monuments in Africa, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, North America, and Australia.

In this volume, the authors ask similar questions about monuments in each location and answer them following a parallel structure that encourages comparison, highlighting common themes. The chapters track the contested histories of monuments, scrutinizing their narrative power and examining the violent events behind them. It is both about the history of monuments and the histories the monuments are meant to commemorate. It is interested in this nuanced relationship between violence, monuments, memory, and colonial legacies; the ways different facets of colonial violence—conquest, resistance, massacres, genocides, internments, and injustices—have been commemorated (or haven't been), how they live in the present, and how pertinent they are in the present to different peoples. Legacies of colonial violence, and continued reinterpretations of the past and its meanings remain very much ongoing. They are still very much unsettled questions in large parts of the world.

Colonial Violence and Monuments in Global History will be essential reading for students, scholars, and researchers of political science, history, sociology and colonial studies. The book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Looking Globally at Monuments, Violence, and Colonial Legacies
• 1 Visualizing Juan de Oñate’s Colonial Legacies in New Mexico
• 2 De-Colonizing Australia’s Commemorative Landscape: “Truth-Telling,” Contestation and the Dialogical Turn
• 3 The Pinjarra Massacre in the Age of the Statue Wars
• 4 Südwester Reiter : Fear, Belonging, and Settler Colonial Violence in Namibia
• 5 South Africa’s Voortrekker Monument and 1820 Settlers National Monument: Monuments to Cultural Violence
• 6 The Ajnala Massacre of 1857 and the Politics of Colonial Violence and Commemoration in Contemporary India
• 7 Belgian Monuments of Colonial Violence: the Commemoration of Martyred Missionaries
• Index