Overview
- 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
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Colonial Violence and ‘Ways of Seeing’
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Colonial Authority and the Violence of Law
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About this book
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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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World
Editors: Philip Dwyer, Amanda Nettelbeck
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62923-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62922-3Published: 02 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87430-2Published: 24 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62923-0Published: 17 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 292
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism, World History, Global and Transnational History, Social History, Modern History