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Author : James Belich
Release : 1989
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Book Synopsis The Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict by : James Belich
Download or read book The Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict written by James Belich. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Belich
Release : 1986
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict by : James Belich
Download or read book The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict written by James Belich. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there have been recent works on the origins and consequences of the 19th-century New Zealand Wars, this is the first thorough reexamination of their course in over sixty years. According to the author, "The degree of Maori success in all four major wars is still underestimated--even to the point where, in the case of one war, the wrong side is said to have won." Here, Belich sets out to show how historical distortions have arisen over time revises our understanding of New Zealand history.
Author : James Belich
Release : 2015-05-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict by : James Belich
Download or read book The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict written by James Belich. This book was released on 2015-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Belich’s book is a tour de force. In a brilliant new analysis, he demolishes the received wisdom of the course and outcome of the new Zealand Wars . . . explains how we came by the version and why it is all wrong, and substitutes his own interpretation. It is a vigorous and splendidly stylish contribution to our historiography. – the New Zealand Listener This is not just a good book. It is a remarkable book. – Professor Keith Sinclair First published in 1986, James Belich’s groundbreaking book and the television series based upon it transformed New Zealanders’ understanding of the ‘bitter and bloody struggles’ between Maori and Pakeha in the nineteenth century. Revealing the enormous tactical and military skill of Maori, and the inability of the ‘Victorian interpretation of racial conflict’ to acknowledge those qualities, Belich’s account of the New Zealand Wars offered a very different picture from the one previously given in historical works. Maori, in Belich’s view, won the Northern War and stalemated the British in the Taranaki War of 1860–61 only to be defeated by 18,000 British troops in the Waikato War of 1863–64. The secret of effective Maori resistance was an innovative military system, the modern pa, a trench-and-bunker fortification of a sophistication not achieved in Europe until 1915. According to the author: ‘The degree of Maori success in all four major wars is still underestimated – even to the point where, in the case of one war, the wrong side is said to have won.’ This bestselling classic of New Zealand history is a must-read – and Belich’s larger argument about the impact of historical interpretation resonates today.
Author : Luther Marion Fuller
Release : 1926
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Book Synopsis Problem of Racial Conflict by : Luther Marion Fuller
Download or read book Problem of Racial Conflict written by Luther Marion Fuller. This book was released on 1926. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura Callanan
Release : 2006
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Deciphering Race by : Laura Callanan
Download or read book Deciphering Race written by Laura Callanan. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deciphering Race engages with the complex and contested world of Victorian racial discourse. In the five central texts under consideration in this study--Harriet Martineau's The Hour and the Man, Robert Knox's The Races of Men, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins's "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners," the transcript of the inquiry into the Governor Eyre Controversy, and James Grant's First Love and Last Love--a white English author or character turns to the aesthetic in order to assuage a sense of anxiety produced by a confrontation with racial otherness. White characters or narrators confront the limitations of preconceived ideologies or the interlacing of oppressions, and subsequently falter. In this manner these narratives confront the complexity, indeterminacy, and irrationality of both racial difference and the systems put in place to understand that difference. Deciphering Race unpacks this narrative turn to the aesthetic in writings by white English individuals and thus reveals the instability at the heart of cultural understanding of race and racial tropes at mid-century. This series of readings will help to see how figurative structures, while providing a bridge between different cultures and epistemologies, also reinforce a distance that keeps groups separate. Only by disentangling these structures, by addressing and unpacking our assumptions and narratives about those different from ourselves, and by understanding our deep cultural anxiety and investment in these ways of talking about one another, can we begin to create the conditions for productive, local understanding between different cultures, races, and communities.
