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.
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`Savage Wars of Peace': Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World |
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Part I Colonial Violence and `Ways of Seeing' |
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The Psychology of Colonial Violence |
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25 | (28) |
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Colonial Violence and the Picturesque |
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53 | (20) |
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Categories of Conquest and Colonial Control: The French in Tonkin, 1884--1914 |
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73 | (20) |
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Part II Colonial Authority and the Violence of Law |
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Martial Law in the British Empire |
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93 | (18) |
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Flogging as Judicial Violence: The Colonial Rationale of Corporal Punishment |
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111 | (20) |
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Seeing like a Policeman: Everyday Violence in British India, c. 1900--1950 |
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131 | (22) |
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Part III Dynamics of Colonial Warfare |
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The Dynamics of British Colonial Violence |
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153 | (22) |
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Disciplining Native Masculinities: Colonial Violence in Malaya, `Land of the Pirate and the Amok' |
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175 | (22) |
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Fascist Violence and the `Ethnic Reconstruction' of Cyrenaica (Libya), 1922--1934 |
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197 | (24) |
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Part IV Repression and Resistance |
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Contesting Colonial Violence in New Caledonia |
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221 | (22) |
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Prom Liberation to Elimination: Violence and Resistance in Japan's Southeast Asia, 1942--1945 |
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243 | (22) |
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Nothing to Report? Challenging Dutch Discourse on Colonial Counterinsurgency in Indonesia, 1945--1949 |
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265 | (22) |
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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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