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Title Empire's violent end : comparing Dutch, British, and French wars of decolonization, 1945-1962 / edited by Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022

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Contents Introduction : Beyond the League Table of Barbarity : Comparing Extreme Violence during the Wars of Decolonization / Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis -- Not an Afterthought : Accountability for Colonial Violence in the Dutch and British Metropoles / Huw Bennett and Peter Romijn -- Windows onto the Micro-Dynamics of Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence : Evidence from Late Colonial Southeast Asia and Africa Compared / Roel Frakking and Martin Thomas -- Cracking Down on Revolutionary Zeal and Violence : Local Dynamics and Early Colonial Responses to the Independence Struggle in Indochina and the Indonesian Archipelago, 1945-1947 / Pierre Asselin and Henk Schulte Nordholt -- The Places, Traces, and Politics of Rape in the Indonesian and the Algerian Wars of Independence / Stef Scagliola and Natalya Vince, in collaboration with Khedidja Adel and Galuh Amba -- "The normal order of things" : Contextualizing "Technical Violence" in the Netherlands-Indonesia War / Azarja Harmanny and Brian McAllister Linn -- "Bloodshed on a rather large scale" : Tactical Conduct and Non-combatant Casualties in Dutch, French, and British Colonial Counterinsurgency / Christiaan Harinck -- Comparing the Afterlives, Political Uses, and Memories of Extreme Violence during the Wars of Decolonization in France, the Netherlands, and Britain / Raphaƫlle Branche
Summary "This book explores various aspects of empire's violent end. The comparative analyses, focused mainly on Dutch, French and British cases, all revolve around the central questions of why, how, and to what extent security forces in service of the colonial powers in so many of the decolonization wars ended up using extreme violence" -- Provided by publisher
Analysis indonesian war of independence, colonial warfare and counterinsurgency, comparing the wars of decolonization, colonial violence, how colonial powers used extreme forms of violence
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Decolonization -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 20th century
Decolonization -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
Decolonization -- Netherlands -- History -- 20th century
Decolonization -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Decolonization -- France -- History -- 20th century
Political violence -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 20th century
Political violence -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
Anti-imperialist movements -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 20th century
Anti-imperialist movements -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
Counterinsurgency -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 20th century
Counterinsurgency -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY / Military / General
Political violence
Netherlandish colonies
French colonies
Decolonization
Counterinsurgency
British colonies
Anti-imperialist movements
SUBJECT Netherlands -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century
Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century
France -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century
Subject Southeast Asia
Netherlands
Great Britain
France
Africa
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Brocades Zaalberg, Thijs, editor
Luttikhuis, Bart, editor
LC no. 2021039991
ISBN 9781501764165
1501764160
9781501764158
1501764152