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This book tackles the historical relationship between colonial violence and monuments in Africa, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, North America, and Australia. The authors ask similar questions about monuments in each location and answer them following a parallel structure that encourages comparison, highlighting common themes.
List of contents
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
About the author
Cynthia C. Prescott is Professor of History at the University of North Dakota, USA. She is author of
Pioneer Mother Monuments: Constructing Cultural Memory (2019), and
Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier (2007).
Janne Lahti is a historian working at the University of Helsinki as Academy of Finland Research Fellow. He has published seven books, including
Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film, with Rebecca Weaver-Hightower (2020), and
The American West and the World: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives (2019).
Summary
This book tackles the historical relationship between colonial violence and monuments in Africa, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, North America, and Australia. The authors ask similar questions about monuments in each location and answer them following a parallel structure that encourages comparison, highlighting common themes.
