Extreme Violence and the ‘British Way’: Colonial Warfare in Perak, Sierra Leone and Sudan: Empire’s Other Histories
Autor Michelle Gordonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 oct 2020
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350156883
ISBN-10: 1350156884
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 5 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Empire’s Other Histories
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350156884
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 5 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Empire’s Other Histories
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Explores the ways in which violence was inherent in the British imperial system in both micro- and macro-moments
Notă biografică
Michelle Gordon is a researcher at the Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Cuprins
AcknowledgementsList of FiguresAbstracts and Key Words1. Introduction: The Place of Colonial Violence within the History of the British Empire2. A 'Little War' in Perak: British Intervention, 1875-763. British Suppression of the 'Hut Tax' War in Sierra Leone, 1898-994. The Anglo-Egyptian Reconquest of Sudan, 1896-995. Conclusion: Was there a British Way in Colonial Warfare?Bibliography
Recenzii
Michelle Gordon's history of violence in the British Empire is an important corrective to a traditional historiography which regards such violence as the exception rather than the rule. Gordon demonstrates instead, using the insights of genocide studies, that extreme violence was essential to the establishment and maintenance of control in the British empire. That violence was often knowingly outside of the legal conventions of warfare and included the targeting of potential resistance before the event, collective reprisals including scorched earth policies and the destruction of civilian communities. Ultimately Michelle Gordon requires us to write violence back into the history of the British Empire, which often held the potential for genocide.
Starting with questions that come from genocide studies and applying them to the much-neglected problem of violence and atrocity in the British Empire, Michelle Gordon has written a powerful work of historical inquiry. Extreme Violence and the 'British Way' will generate much debate and lead to further research into an issue that remains highly relevant for today's world.
This important book shows that rather than constituting an occasional 'excess', extreme violence was a characteristic trait of Britain's empire. Michelle Gordon convincingly attributes extreme imperial violence to its 'exemplary', punitive-cum-'pre-emptive' function. Britain's presence produced resistance that was used to justify the most brutal 'pacification' in the name of civilisation.
Starting with questions that come from genocide studies and applying them to the much-neglected problem of violence and atrocity in the British Empire, Michelle Gordon has written a powerful work of historical inquiry. Extreme Violence and the 'British Way' will generate much debate and lead to further research into an issue that remains highly relevant for today's world.
This important book shows that rather than constituting an occasional 'excess', extreme violence was a characteristic trait of Britain's empire. Michelle Gordon convincingly attributes extreme imperial violence to its 'exemplary', punitive-cum-'pre-emptive' function. Britain's presence produced resistance that was used to justify the most brutal 'pacification' in the name of civilisation.