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Author Dwyer, Philip

Title Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (295 pages)
Series Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Contents Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- â#x80;#x98;Savage Wars of Peaceâ#x80;#x99;: Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World -- Colonial Conquest and (Cultural) Elimination -- Strategies of Colonial Control -- In the Aftermaths of Colonial Violence -- Part I Colonial Violence and â#x80;#x98;Ways of Seeingâ#x80;#x99; -- The Psychology of Colonial Violence -- Colonial Violence -- Anxiety and Fear -- Liberal Empire and Violence -- Colonial Violence and the Picturesque -- Warscapes of â#x80;#x98;the Carnaticâ#x80;#x99; -- Men of â#x80;#x98;Polite Imaginationâ#x80;#x99
Warscapes of â#x80;#x98;Ceylonâ#x80;#x99;Categories of Conquest and Colonial Control: The French in Tonkin, 1884â#x80;#x93;1914 -- The Limits to French Power in Tonkin -- An Ambiguous Enemy -- Chinese Deserters, Bandits, Pirates, and Violence After Pacification -- The Language of Conquest and the Violence of Colonialism -- Part II Colonial Authority and the Violence of Law -- Martial Law in the British Empire -- Origins of Martial Law -- Martial Law in the British Empire in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Discussion -- Characteristics -- Conclusion
Flogging as Judicial Violence: The Colonial Rationale of Corporal Punishment The Decline and Return of Flogging in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire -- Flogging as â#x80;#x98;Merciful Policyâ#x80;#x99; in Late Colonial Western Australia -- Conclusion -- Seeing like a Policeman: Everyday Violence in British India, c. 1900â#x80;#x93;1950 -- Mapping Communities -- Coercion on the Beat -- Conclusion -- Part III Dynamics of Colonial Warfare -- The Dynamics of British Colonial Violence -- The Perak War, 1875â#x80;#x93;1876 -- The â#x80;#x98;Hut Taxâ#x80;#x99; War, Sierra Leone, 1898
The Anglo-Egyptian War of Reconquest in Sudan, 1896â#x80;#x93;1899The â#x80;#x98;Man on the Spotâ#x80;#x99; and the Escalation of Violence -- Concluding Remarks -- Disciplining Native Masculinities: Colonial Violence in Malaya, â#x80;#x98;Land of the Pirate and the Amokâ#x80;#x99; -- Historicising Amok -- The Etymology of Amok and Its â#x80;#x98;Martial Originsâ#x80;#x99; -- â#x80;#x98;Foredoomed to Run Amokâ#x80;#x99;: A Malayan â#x80;#x98;Criminal Cultureâ#x80;#x99;? -- â#x80;#x98;Civilisingâ#x80;#x99; Amoks: Diagnosing Violence -- Fascist Violence and the â#x80;#x98;Ethnic Reconstructionâ#x80;#x99; of Cyrenaica (Libya), 1922â#x80;#x93;1934
Cyrenaica, the Bedouins, and Italian ColonialismFascist Libya -- Deportations and Internment -- â#x80;#x98;Ethnic Reconstructionâ#x80;#x99; -- Conclusion -- Part IV Repression and Resistance -- Contesting Colonial Violence in New Caledonia -- The Events: The Arrest of Céu, the Grassin â#x80;#x98;Affaireâ#x80;#x99; and the Death of Baougane -- The Arrest of Céu: Administrative Violence in Question -- The Grassin â#x80;#x98;Affaireâ#x80;#x99;: Settlers and Administrators on Trial -- The Death of Baougane: A Case of Settler Vengeance? -- Coda -- Conclusion
""From Liberation to Elimination: Violence and Resistance in Japanâ#x80;#x99;s Southeast Asia, 1942â#x80;#x93;1945 ""
Notes Print version record
Subject Violence.
Colonization.
Imperialism.
violence.
colonization.
Colonization
Imperialism
Violence
Form Electronic book
Author Nettelbeck, Amanda
ISBN 9783319629230
3319629239