Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World
Editors: Dwyer, Philip, Nettelbeck, Amanda (Eds.)
Free Preview- Provides a comparative approach to how violence was used by a range of empires to assert and maintain control in colonies around the world
- Chapters cover a number of colonies across Africa, Asia and Oceania, across two centuries and exploring a variety of violent practices
- Brings together new research from an international group of scholars to challenge the long held view that these colonial projects were of benefit to the colonised peoples
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- About this book
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This book explores the theme of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, as well as its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. It examines the wide variety of violent means by which colonies and empire were maintained in the modern era, the politics of repression and the violent structures inherent in empire. Bringing together scholars from around the world, the book includes chapters on British, French, Dutch, Italian and Japanese colonies and conquests. It considers multiple experiences of colonial violence, ranging from political dispute to the non-lethal violence of everyday colonialism and the symbolic repression inherent in colonial practices and hierarchies. These comparative case studies show how violence was used to assert and maintain control in the colonies, contesting the long held view that the colonial project was of benefit to colonised peoples.
- About the authors
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Philip Dwyer is the founding Director of the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Amanda Nettelbeck is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
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“An essential resource for scholars of empire violence, this volume draws revealing connections between colonial sites and experiences rarely analysed alongside one another before. Ranging from the settler colonialism of the early nineteenth century to the devastating impact of contested decolonisation in South East Asia, the contributors clarify the multiple ways in which violence was not just recurrent in colonialism but fundamentally constitutive of it.” (Martin Thomas, Professor of Imperial History, University of Exeter, UK)
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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‘Savage Wars of Peace’: Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World
Pages 1-22
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The Psychology of Colonial Violence
Pages 25-52
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Colonial Violence and the Picturesque
Pages 53-72
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Categories of Conquest and Colonial Control: The French in Tonkin, 1884–1914
Pages 73-90
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Martial Law in the British Empire
Pages 93-109
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World
- Editors
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- Philip Dwyer
- Amanda Nettelbeck
- Series Title
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-62923-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-62923-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-62922-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-87430-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 292
- Number of Illustrations
- 5 b/w illustrations
- Topics
