Empire's Violent End : Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945 1962

Thijs Brocades Zaalberg

ISBN 10: 1501764144 / ISBN 13: 9781501764141

Edité par Cornell University Press Jul 2022, 2022

A propos de cet article

Neuware - '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' --.

N° de réf. du vendeur 9781501764141

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Empire's Violent End : Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945 1962
• Éditeur: Cornell University Press Jul 2022
• Date de parution: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1501764144
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781501764141
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 237 L x 161 H x 25 P (en millimètres) 237 millimètres de largeur par 161 millimètres de hauteur par 25 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 542 grammes

A propos de ce titre

Synopsis

In Empire's Violent End, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis, along with expert contributors, present comparative research focused specifically on excessive violence in Indonesia, Algeria, Vietnam, Malaysia, Kenya, and other areas during the wars of decolonization. In the last two decades, there have been heated public and scholarly debates in France, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands on the violent end of empire. Nevertheless, the broader comparative investigations into colonial counterinsurgency tend to leave atrocities such as torture, execution, and rape in the margins. The editors describe how such comparisons mostly focus on the differences by engaging in "guilt ranking." Moreover, the dramas that have unfolded in Algeria and Kenya tend to overshadow similar violent events in Indonesia, the very first nation to declare independence directly after World War II.

Empire's Violent End is the first book to place the Dutch-Indonesian case at the heart of a comparison with focused, thematic analysis on a diverse range of topics to demonstrate that despite variation in scale, combat intensity, and international dynamics, there were more similarities than differences in the ways colonial powers used extreme forms of violence. By delving into the causes and nature of the abuse, Brocades Zaalberg and Luttikhuis conclude that all cases involved some form of institutionalized impunity, which enabled the type of situation in which the forces in the service of the colonial rulers were able to use extreme violence.

À propos de l?auteur

Thijs Brocades Zaalberg is Associate Professor at the Netherlands Defence Academy and Lecturer in Contemporary Military History at Leiden University. He is the author of Soldiers and Civil Power.

Bart Luttikhuis teaches at Alberdingk Thijm School and was previously a fellow at Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) and Lecturer at Leiden University. He is a coeditor of Colonial Counterinsurgency and Mass Violence.