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Terra Nullius - A Journey Through No One's Land (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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Terra Nullius - A Journey Through No One's Land (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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""At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries,
the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and
replace throughout the world the savage races.""--Charles Darwin,
"The Descent of Man"
"Terra nullius"--no man's land--was the legal fiction employed to
justify the white invasion of Australia. Aboriginal lands were
declared "terra nullius" because, it was claimed, they were
inhabited by people who would soon die out--and who could be helped
on the way to extinction if they lingered.
Author of the acclaimed ""Exterminate All the Brutes"" and "A
History of Bombing," Sven Lindqvist is one of the most innovative
writers and historians at work today. He brings his original
sensibility to bear as he travels 12,000 kilometers through
so-called no man's land in search of places where belief in the
rights of the white man and the inevitable extinction of the "lower
races" were put into practice. The world the Aborigines had known
for centuries ended as young boys were kidnapped to dive for
pearls, then whipped and abandoned when the bends ruined them for
work; "half-caste" children were taken from their mothers; and
natives were put in neck irons and sent to internment camps under
false diagnoses of STDs.
Mining history, popular fiction, anthropology, and his own travels,
Lindqvist brilliantly weaves together an illuminating and
disturbing history of how "no man's land" became the province of
the white man.
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