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Communal Violence in the British Empire - Disturbing the Pax (Paperback)
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Communal Violence in the British Empire - Disturbing the Pax (Paperback)
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Joint winner of the North American Conference on British Studies
2017 Stansky Book Prize for the best book on British Studies since
1800 Communal Violence in the British Empire focuses on how Britons
interpreted, policed, and sometimes fostered violence between
different ethnic and religious communities in the empire. It also
asks what these outbreaks meant for the power and prestige of
Britain among subject populations. Alternating between chapters of
engaging narrative and chapters of careful, cross-colonial
analysis, Mark Doyle uses outbreaks of communal violence in
Ireland, the West Indies, and South Asia to uncover the inner
workings of British imperialism: it's guiding assumptions, its
mechanisms of control, its impact, and its limitations. He explains
how Britons used communal violence to justify the imperial project
even as that project was creating the conditions for more violence.
Above all, this book demonstrates how communal violence exposed the
limits of British power and, in time, helped lay the groundwork for
the empire's collapse. This book shows how violence, and the
British state's handling thereof, was a fundamental part of the
imperial experience for colonizer and colonized alike. It offers a
new perspective on the workings of empire that will be of interest
to any student of imperial or world history.
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