Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World

Book Overview

1. 'Savage Wars of Peace': Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World; Philip Dwyer and Amanda Nettelbeck.- Colonial Violence and 'Ways of Seeing'.- 2. The Psychology of Colonial Violence; Richard N. Price.- 3. Colonial Violence and the Picturesque; Elizabeth Mjelde.- 4. Categories of Conquest and Colonial Control: The French in Tonkin, 1884-1914; James R. Lehning.- Colonial Authority and the Violence of Law.- 5. Martial Law in the British Empire; Lyndall Ryan.- 6. Flogging as Judicial Violence: The Colonial Rationale of Corporal Punishment; Amanda Nettelbeck.- 7. Seeing Like a Policeman: Everyday Violence in British India, c. 1900-1950; Radha Kumar.- Dynamics of Colonial Warfare.- 8. The Dynamics of British Colonial Violence; Michelle Gordon.- 9. Disciplining Native Masculinities: Colonial Violence in the 'Land of the Pirate and the Amok'; Jialin Christina Wu.- 10. Fascist Violence and the 'Ethnic Reconstruction' of Cyrenaica

(Libya), 1922-34; Michael R. Ebner.- Repression and Resistance.- 11. Contesting Colonial Violence in New Caledonia; Adrian Muckle.- 12. From Liberation to Elimination: Violence and Resistance in Japan's Southeast Asia, 1942-1945; Kelly Maddox.- 13. Nothing to Report? Challenging Dutch Discourse on Colonial Counterinsurgency in Indonesia, 1945-1949; Bart Luttikhuis and C. H. C. Harinck.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319874306
• ISBN13: 9783319874302
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.7" x 8.2"