Dark vanishings : discourse on the extinction of primitive races, 1800-1930 / Patrick Brantlinger.

Ithaca, N.Y. ; London : Cornell University Press, 2003.

x, 248 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-241) and index.

1. Aboriginal matters -- 2. Pre-Darwinian theories on the extinction of primitive races -- 3. Vanishing Americans -- 4. Humanitarian causes: antislavery and saving aboriginals -- 5. The Irish famine -- 6. The dusk of the dreamtime -- 7. Islands of death and the devil -- 8. Darwin and after -- 9. White twilights.