The lethality of conflicts between insurgent groups and
counter-insurgent security forces has risen markedly since the
Second World War just as those of conventional, or inter-state wars
have declined. For several decades, conflicts within states rather
than between them have been the prevalent form of organised
political violence worldwide. Recent conflicts in Afghanistan,
Iraq, and Syria have fired interest in colonial experiences of
rebellion, while current western interventions in sub-Saharan
Africa have prompted accusations of 'militarist humanitarianism'.
Yet, despite mounting interest in counter-insurgency and empire,
comparative investigation of colonial responses to insurrection and
civil disorder is sparse. Some scholars have written of a 'golden
age of counter-insurgency', which began with Britain's declaration
of a Malayan Emergency in 1948 and ended with the withdrawal of US
ground troops from Vietnam in 1973. It is with this period, if not
with any presumed 'golden age' that this volume is concerned. This
Handbook connects ideas about contested decolonization and the
insurgencies that inspired it with an analysis of patterns and
singularities in the conflicts that precipitated the collapse of
overseas empires. It attempts a systematic study of the global
effects of organized anti-colonial violence in Asia and Africa. The
objective is to reconceptualize late colonial violence in the
European overseas empires by exploring its distinctive character
and the globalizing processes underpinning it.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Oxford Handbooks |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| Editors: |
Martin Thomas
(Senior Lecturer, Department of History)
• Gareth Curless
(Professor of Imperial History)
|
| Dimensions: |
246 x 171mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
784 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-886678-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-19-886678-X |
| Barcode: |
9780198866787 |
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