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Dark vanishings : discourse on the extinction of primitive races, 1800-1930 /
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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| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2003.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |