Postcolonial states and metropolitan societies still grapple today with the divisive and difficult legacies unleashed by settler colonialism.Whether they were settled for trade or geopolitical reasons, these settler communities had in common their shaping of landholding, laws, and race relations in colonies throughout the world. By looking at the detail of settlements in the twentieth century--from European colonial projects in Africa and expansionist efforts by the Japanese in Korea and Manchuria, to the Germans in Poland and the historical trajectories of Israel/Palestine and South Africa--and analyzing the dynamics set in motion by these settlers, the contributors to this volume establish points of comparison to offer a new framework for understanding the character and fate of twentieth-century empires.

Introduction: Settler Colonialism: A Concept and its Uses Caroline Elkins and Susan Pedersen I. Creating Settler Colonies: Utopian Visions and Totalizing Worlds Malthusian Dreams, Colonial Imaginary: The Oriental Development Company and Japanese Emigration to Korea Hyung Gu Lynn Settler Citizenship in the Jewish Colonization of Palestine Gershon Shafir Between Empire and Nation: Settler Colonialism in Manchukuo Prasenjit Duara Settling Against the Tide: The Layered Contradictions of Twentieth Century Portuguese Settlement in Mozambique Jeanne Penvenne Management and Manipulation: Nazi Settlement Planners and Ethnic German Settlers in Occupied Poland Elizabeth Harvey Settler Colonialism at the Bar of the League of Nations Susan Pedersen II. Settler Colonialism in Action: Institutions and Practices Mission Legislatrice: Extraterritoriality and Japan's Legal Mission to Korea in the Early Twentieth Century Alexis Dudden Brokers of Empire: Japanese and Korean Business Elites in Colonial Korea Jun Uchida Settler Colonization in the Middle East and North Africa: Its Economic Rationale Roger Owen Racial Violence and the Origins of Segregation in South Africa Ivan Evans Race, Citizenship and Governance: Settler Tyranny and the End of Empire Caroline Elkins III. Settler Communities after Decolonization: Myths, Memories, Strategies The Southern World of the Pieds-Noirs: References to and Representations of Europeans in Colonial Algeria Benjamin Stora Imperial Remnants: the Repatriates in Postwar Japan Lori Watt Unsettling the Metropole: Race and Settler Re-incorporation in Postcolonial Portugal Stephen Lubkemann Sleep with a Southwester: Monuments and Settler Identity in Namibia. Jeremy Silvester