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Where the Maps End: Indigenous Territories and the Colonization of the Western Amazon in the Nineteenth Century
Where the Maps End: Indigenous Territories and the Colonization of the Western Amazon in the Nineteenth Century
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202104802
- ISBN
- 9798293887392
- DDC
- 980
- 서명/저자
- Where the Maps End: Indigenous Territories and the Colonization of the Western Amazon in the Nineteenth Century
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : New York University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 500 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-03, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Thomson, Sinclair;Weinstein, Barbara.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This study examines Indigenous sovereignty in the western Amazon during the nineteenth century, challenging colonial narratives that depicted the region as terra nullius-empty land available for appropriation. Drawing on archival sources, this study illuminates Indigenous strategies for maintaining autonomy and asserting the upper hand in encounters with colonial actors. The dissertation argues that Amazonian communities maintained territorial control and autonomy despite encroaching projects of colonization, nationalization and agrarian transformation. Focusing on the period between 1850 and 1912, it reveals how Indigenous groups leveraged ecological knowledge, mobility, and economic self-sufficiency to negotiate with-and often control-colonial actors.The research highlights how the ideological frameworks of "civilization" and "savagery" alongside a settler-colonial logic justified regional expansion into the western Amazon, revealing clashes between state-imposed agrarian land regimes and Indigenous land-use practices. While colonial actors envisioned the Amazon as a space to be transformed through steam navigation, migration, and rubber extraction, Indigenous resistance constrained these ambitions well into the last part of the nineteenth century. Only with the violent expansion of rubber economies did nation-states begin to establish territorial legibility, displacing Indigenous populations to assert their own control.By decentering the rubber boom as the defining moment of Amazonian history, this study highlights long-standing Indigenous strategies of autonomy, from pre-colonial times through the nineteenth century. It reframes the western Amazon as a contested borderland rather than an empty frontier, emphasizing Indigenous agency in shaping regional histories. Ultimately, the dissertation exposes the limitations of colonial power, revealing how Indigenous territoriality persisted in spaces illegible to colonial actors, forcing states to rely on extreme violence to enact their visions of progress and civilization.
- 일반주제명
- Latin American history
- 일반주제명
- Native studies
- 키워드
- Colonization
- 키워드
- Rubber boom
- 키워드
- Western Amazon
- 기타저자
- New York University History
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-03A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2025.
■520 ▼aThis study examines Indigenous sovereignty in the western Amazon during the nineteenth century, challenging colonial narratives that depicted the region as terra nullius-empty land available for appropriation. Drawing on archival sources, this study illuminates Indigenous strategies for maintaining autonomy and asserting the upper hand in encounters with colonial actors. The dissertation argues that Amazonian communities maintained territorial control and autonomy despite encroaching projects of colonization, nationalization and agrarian transformation. Focusing on the period between 1850 and 1912, it reveals how Indigenous groups leveraged ecological knowledge, mobility, and economic self-sufficiency to negotiate with-and often control-colonial actors.The research highlights how the ideological frameworks of "civilization" and "savagery" alongside a settler-colonial logic justified regional expansion into the western Amazon, revealing clashes between state-imposed agrarian land regimes and Indigenous land-use practices. While colonial actors envisioned the Amazon as a space to be transformed through steam navigation, migration, and rubber extraction, Indigenous resistance constrained these ambitions well into the last part of the nineteenth century. Only with the violent expansion of rubber economies did nation-states begin to establish territorial legibility, displacing Indigenous populations to assert their own control.By decentering the rubber boom as the defining moment of Amazonian history, this study highlights long-standing Indigenous strategies of autonomy, from pre-colonial times through the nineteenth century. It reframes the western Amazon as a contested borderland rather than an empty frontier, emphasizing Indigenous agency in shaping regional histories. Ultimately, the dissertation exposes the limitations of colonial power, revealing how Indigenous territoriality persisted in spaces illegible to colonial actors, forcing states to rely on extreme violence to enact their visions of progress and civilization.
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■650 4▼aNative studies
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■791 ▼aPh.D.
■792 ▼a2025
■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17358861▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
