Explaining the Genetic Footprints of Catholic and Protestant Colonizers

This book points out a novel pattern in colonial intimacy - that Catholic colonizers tended to leave behind significant mixed communities while Protestant colonizers were more likely to police relations with local women. The varied genetic footprints of Catholic and Protestant colonizers, while subject to some exceptions, holds across world regions and over time. Having demonstrated that this pattern exists, this book then seeks to explain it, looking to religious institutions, political capacity, and ideas of nation and race.

About the Author

Shane Barter is the Associate Director of the Pacific Basin Research Center and is an Assistant Professor at Soka University of America, USA. He is the author of Civilian Strategy in Civil War: Insights from Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines (Palgrave 2014) as well as numerous articles appearing in Asian Ethnicity, the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Geographical Review, and other journals. He has worked at Forum-Asia, a Thai human rights NGO, and has served as an election observer for the Carter Center.