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Article: Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History.(Book Review)
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- Journal of World History
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History. Edited by a. DIRK MOSES. New York: Berghahn Books, 2004. $75.00 (cloth; 400 pp.); $25.00 (paper; 325 pp.; 2005).
Over the past few years, genocide studies has begun to take on the distinctive characteristics of a discipline in its own right. Genocide study centers have sprung up, together with dedicated chairs, specialist journals, college courses, Web sites, and a regular schedule of international conferences. In the process, genocide studies has begun to evince a canonical structure. The Nazi Holocaust predominates, to the extent that a significant proportion ...