Dark vanishings : discourse on the extinction of primitive races, 1800-1930 / Patrick Brantlinger.

Patrick Brantlinger here examines the commonly held nineteenth-century view that all "primitive" or "savage" races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction. Warlike propensities and presumed cannibalism were regarded as simultaneously noble and suicidal, acceler...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Brantlinger, Patrick, 1941-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Subjects:	Indigenous peoples. Social Darwinism. Genocide. Eurocentrism.