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"The Touch of Civilization"

Sabol, Steven,

"The Touch of Civilization" Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization / [electronic resource] : Steve Sabol. - Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2016] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Sioux and the Kazakhs -- Pre-nineteenth-century expansion -- Conquest and martial resistance -- Through the colonial looking-glass -- Internal colonization -- Assimilation and identity.

"A critical, comparative examination of internal colonization exercised by the United States and Russia and experienced by two indigenous populations, the Sioux and the Kazakhs, to negate the tendency to isolate the study of American history, to overemphasize the uniqueness of the American development and to exalt national pride"--Provided by publisher.

9781607325505




Kazakhs--History.
Dakota Indians--History.
Collective memory--United States.
Collective memory--Russia.
Imperialism--History.
Comparative civilization.


Russia--Territorial expansion.
United States--Territorial expansion.


Electronic books.

CB451 / .S23 2016

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