Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930

by Patrick Brantlinger

Book Overview

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, accelerants of the downfall of other races after contact with white civilization. Brantlinger finds at the heart of this belief the stereotype of the self-exterminating savage,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801488761
• ISBN13: 9780801488764
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher