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2. What is settler colonialism? An anthropological meditation on frantz fanon's "concerning violence"
3. For an insightful look at the emergence of the Whig Party, seeSean Wilentz,The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln(New York:Norton,2005),482–518; see alsoMichael F. Holt,The Rise and Fall of the Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War(New York:Oxford University Press,1999);Daniel Walker Howe,The Political Culture of the American Whigs(Chicago:University of Chicago Press,1979).
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