Martin Thomas is Professor of Imperial History at the University of Exeter, where he has taught since 2003. He is co-director of Exeter's Centre for Histories of Violence and Conflict, which brings together researchers with interests in historical approaches to studying collective violence, its meanings, and impacts. He is a past winner of a Philip Leverhulme research prize and a holder of Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowships. He is also a fellow of the Independent Social Research Foundation. He works on decolonization and political violence.Gareth Curless is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Exeter, where he has taught since 2013. He is a historian of decolonization, with a particular interest in histories of work, class, and the 'labour question' at the end of empire.

I would highly recommend this volume to scholars of empire, of decolonization, and of insurgencies/counter-insurgencies and modern warfare. Its essays are coherent, cutting-edge, well-researched, and can effectively orient a scholar toward emerging research in their respective fields.

• Martin Thomas: Introduction: Revisiting the Violent Collapse of Empires Approaches to Insurgent and Counter-Insurgent Violence 1: Jonathan Krause and Miles Larmer: Beyond the State/Rebel Dichotomy in Twentieth Century African Warfare 2: Alex Marshall: Counterinsurgency and the Russian 'Way of War' 3: Gemma Clark: Fire as Revolution and Repression: Revolutionary Ireland in Perspective 4: Peter Keppy, Abdul Wahid, and Bart Luttikhuis: Insurgencies in early post-colonial Indonesia 5: Jeremy Kuzmarov: Humanitarian Illusions: American Counterinsurgency, From the Indians Wars to the Global War on Terror 6: Rachel Kowalski: Sources, Methods, and the Violence of Insurgency in Northern Ireland 'Rules of the game': Law, Doctrine, and Propaganda 7: Martin Thomas: Decolonization's Wars and the Civilianization of Violence 8: Matthew Hughes: The Architecture of Colonial Control: Britain's Pacification of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-1939 9: Christiaan Harinck: Late colonial counterinsurgency as an intellectual challenge: the development of Dutch tactical doctrine during the Indonesian War, 1945-1949 10: Boyd van Dijk: The Geneva Conventions, Insurgency, and Decolonization 11: Stacey Hynd: 'More an Inspiration than a Deterrent'? Capital Punishment and British Colonial Counter-Insurgency, c. 1916-73 12: Brian Drohan: Sinning Quietly: Law and Human Rights in British Colonial Counter-Insurgency 13: Tony Craig: Internment, imprisonment, interrogation, and resistance in low intensity conflict. Carceral warfare and republican paramilitaries in Northern Ireland 1968-c. 1988 Affiliations: Motivation and Mobilization 14: Gajendra Singh: The Place of Revolutionary Violence in India, 1905-1947: From Aberrant Nationalisms to the Nationalist Mainstream 15: Kent Fedorowich and Ian van der Waag: The Afrikaner Rebellion 1914-15: Internal Conflict and the Counterinsurgency Campaign 16: Daniel Branch: Unwanted Friends: Loyalty and Citizenship in Britain's Imperial Wars, 1899-1960 17: Roel Frakking: 'Independence or Death'? Rank and File Recruitment, Ideology, and Desertion during the Wars of Decolonization in Indonesia and Malaysia, ca. 1945-1960 18: Pierre Asselin: Hanoi's National Liberation Strategy, 1954-1975 19: Emily Bridger: Gender, Mobilisation, and Insurgency in South Africa: Young Comrades in the 1980s Township Uprisings 20: Neil Macmaster: Guns, Grain, and Gold: the peasant base of Algerian guerrilla logistics, c.1954-1957 21: Saphia Arezki: The insurgent strategies of the ALN in Algeria (1954-1962) 22: Edward Burke and Huw Bennett: The Aden Protectorate Levies, Counter-insurgency, and the Loyalist Bargain in South Arabia, 1951-1957 Development and Population Control 23: Moritz Feichtinger: Strategic Resettlement: Population Removal and Coercive Development in Late Colonial Counter-Insurgency 24: Andreas Stucki: Gendering Development and Social Control in the Iberian Empires in Africa, 1950s-1970s 25: Kate Bruce-Lockhart and Bethany Rebisz: Discourses of Development and Practices of Punishment: Britain's Gendered Counter-Insurgency Strategy in Colonial Kenya 26: Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and José Pedro Monteiro: The labours of (in)security in Portuguese late colonialism 27: Claudia Castello: (Un)settling late colonial Niassa, Mozambique (1966-1974): social knowledge, development, and counter-insurgency 28: Philip J. Havik: Mass Medicine, Disease Control, and Conflict: Collective Health Security During Late Colonialism in Africa 29: Phi-Vân Nguyen: Refugees in Violent Decolonizations 30: Christian Gerlach: Indonesian strategic resettlement and development policies in East Timor Beyond Borders: Transnational Dimensions 31: Aditya Kiran Kakati: Limits of sovereignty: developing blank spaces across Asian borders after the Second World War 32: Christopher Goscha: The Hunger General: Economic Warfare during the Indochina War 33: Elie Tenenbaum: A community of mavericks: circulating counterinsurgency knowledge in the West (1945-1975) 34: Mathilde von Bülow: Exile, Safe Havens, and Rear Bases: External Sanctuaries and the Transnational Dimension of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-insurgencies 35: Aaron Edwards: Dark Networks and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland Ending Insurgencies and the Afterlives of Violent Decolonisation 36: Maria Hadjiathanasiou: The Cyprus Revolt and the 'Prickly Subject' of Truces 37: Raphaëlle Branche: To forget and remember: the paradoxical legacy of French military actions in Algeria 38: Gareth Curless: Violence and (Dis)Order in the Caribbean PostColony: Guyana and Jamaica

Martin Thomas is Professor of Imperial History at the University of Exeter, where he has taught since 2003. He is co-director of Exeter's Centre for Histories of Violence and Conflict, which brings together researchers with interests in historical approaches to studying collective violence, its meanings, and impacts. He is a past winner of a Philip Leverhulme research prize and a holder of Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowships. He is also a fellow of the Independent Social Research Foundation. He works on decolonization and political violence.Gareth Curless is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Exeter, where he has taught since 2013. He is a historian of decolonization, with a particular interest in histories of work, class, and the 'labour question' at the end of empire.

I would highly recommend this volume to scholars of empire, of decolonization, and of insurgencies/counter-insurgencies and modern warfare. Its essays are coherent, cutting-edge, well-researched, and can effectively orient a scholar toward emerging research in their respective fields.

• Martin Thomas: Introduction: Revisiting the Violent Collapse of Empires Approaches to Insurgent and Counter-Insurgent Violence 1: Jonathan Krause and Miles Larmer: Beyond the State/Rebel Dichotomy in Twentieth Century African Warfare 2: Alex Marshall: Counterinsurgency and the Russian 'Way of War' 3: Gemma Clark: Fire as Revolution and Repression: Revolutionary Ireland in Perspective 4: Peter Keppy, Abdul Wahid, and Bart Luttikhuis: Insurgencies in early post-colonial Indonesia 5: Jeremy Kuzmarov: Humanitarian Illusions: American Counterinsurgency, From the Indians Wars to the Global War on Terror 6: Rachel Kowalski: Sources, Methods, and the Violence of Insurgency in Northern Ireland 'Rules of the game': Law, Doctrine, and Propaganda 7: Martin Thomas: Decolonization's Wars and the Civilianization of Violence 8: Matthew Hughes: The Architecture of Colonial Control: Britain's Pacification of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-1939 9: Christiaan Harinck: Late colonial counterinsurgency as an intellectual challenge: the development of Dutch tactical doctrine during the Indonesian War, 1945-1949 10: Boyd van Dijk: The Geneva Conventions, Insurgency, and Decolonization 11: Stacey Hynd: 'More an Inspiration than a Deterrent'? Capital Punishment and British Colonial Counter-Insurgency, c. 1916-73 12: Brian Drohan: Sinning Quietly: Law and Human Rights in British Colonial Counter-Insurgency 13: Tony Craig: Internment, imprisonment, interrogation, and resistance in low intensity conflict. Carceral warfare and republican paramilitaries in Northern Ireland 1968-c. 1988 Affiliations: Motivation and Mobilization 14: Gajendra Singh: The Place of Revolutionary Violence in India, 1905-1947: From Aberrant Nationalisms to the Nationalist Mainstream 15: Kent Fedorowich and Ian van der Waag: The Afrikaner Rebellion 1914-15: Internal Conflict and the Counterinsurgency Campaign 16: Daniel Branch: Unwanted Friends: Loyalty and Citizenship in Britain's Imperial Wars, 1899-1960 17: Roel Frakking: 'Independence or Death'? Rank and File Recruitment, Ideology, and Desertion during the Wars of Decolonization in Indonesia and Malaysia, ca. 1945-1960 18: Pierre Asselin: Hanoi's National Liberation Strategy, 1954-1975 19: Emily Bridger: Gender, Mobilisation, and Insurgency in South Africa: Young Comrades in the 1980s Township Uprisings 20: Neil Macmaster: Guns, Grain, and Gold: the peasant base of Algerian guerrilla logistics, c.1954-1957 21: Saphia Arezki: The insurgent strategies of the ALN in Algeria (1954-1962) 22: Edward Burke and Huw Bennett: The Aden Protectorate Levies, Counter-insurgency, and the Loyalist Bargain in South Arabia, 1951-1957 Development and Population Control 23: Moritz Feichtinger: Strategic Resettlement: Population Removal and Coercive Development in Late Colonial Counter-Insurgency 24: Andreas Stucki: Gendering Development and Social Control in the Iberian Empires in Africa, 1950s-1970s 25: Kate Bruce-Lockhart and Bethany Rebisz: Discourses of Development and Practices of Punishment: Britain's Gendered Counter-Insurgency Strategy in Colonial Kenya 26: Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and José Pedro Monteiro: The labours of (in)security in Portuguese late colonialism 27: Claudia Castello: (Un)settling late colonial Niassa, Mozambique (1966-1974): social knowledge, development, and counter-insurgency 28: Philip J. Havik: Mass Medicine, Disease Control, and Conflict: Collective Health Security During Late Colonialism in Africa 29: Phi-Vân Nguyen: Refugees in Violent Decolonizations 30: Christian Gerlach: Indonesian strategic resettlement and development policies in East Timor Beyond Borders: Transnational Dimensions 31: Aditya Kiran Kakati: Limits of sovereignty: developing blank spaces across Asian borders after the Second World War 32: Christopher Goscha: The Hunger General: Economic Warfare during the Indochina War 33: Elie Tenenbaum: A community of mavericks: circulating counterinsurgency knowledge in the West (1945-1975) 34: Mathilde von Bülow: Exile, Safe Havens, and Rear Bases: External Sanctuaries and the Transnational Dimension of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-insurgencies 35: Aaron Edwards: Dark Networks and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland Ending Insurgencies and the Afterlives of Violent Decolonisation 36: Maria Hadjiathanasiou: The Cyprus Revolt and the 'Prickly Subject' of Truces 37: Raphaëlle Branche: To forget and remember: the paradoxical legacy of French military actions in Algeria 38: Gareth Curless: Violence and (Dis)Order in the Caribbean PostColony: Guyana and Jamaica

Martin Thomas is Professor of Imperial History at the University of Exeter, where he has taught since 2003. He is co-director of Exeter's Centre for Histories of Violence and Conflict, which brings together researchers with interests in historical approaches to studying collective violence, its meanings, and impacts. He is a past winner of a Philip Leverhulme research prize and a holder of Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowships. He is also a fellow of the Independent Social Research Foundation. He works on decolonization and political violence.Gareth Curless is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Exeter, where he has taught since 2013. He is a historian of decolonization, with a particular interest in histories of work, class, and the 'labour question' at the end of empire.

I would highly recommend this volume to scholars of empire, of decolonization, and of insurgencies/counter-insurgencies and modern warfare. Its essays are coherent, cutting-edge, well-researched, and can effectively orient a scholar toward emerging research in their respective fields.

• Martin Thomas: Introduction: Revisiting the Violent Collapse of Empires Approaches to Insurgent and Counter-Insurgent Violence 1: Jonathan Krause and Miles Larmer: Beyond the State/Rebel Dichotomy in Twentieth Century African Warfare 2: Alex Marshall: Counterinsurgency and the Russian 'Way of War' 3: Gemma Clark: Fire as Revolution and Repression: Revolutionary Ireland in Perspective 4: Peter Keppy, Abdul Wahid, and Bart Luttikhuis: Insurgencies in early post-colonial Indonesia 5: Jeremy Kuzmarov: Humanitarian Illusions: American Counterinsurgency, From the Indians Wars to the Global War on Terror 6: Rachel Kowalski: Sources, Methods, and the Violence of Insurgency in Northern Ireland 'Rules of the game': Law, Doctrine, and Propaganda 7: Martin Thomas: Decolonization's Wars and the Civilianization of Violence 8: Matthew Hughes: The Architecture of Colonial Control: Britain's Pacification of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-1939 9: Christiaan Harinck: Late colonial counterinsurgency as an intellectual challenge: the development of Dutch tactical doctrine during the Indonesian War, 1945-1949 10: Boyd van Dijk: The Geneva Conventions, Insurgency, and Decolonization 11: Stacey Hynd: 'More an Inspiration than a Deterrent'? Capital Punishment and British Colonial Counter-Insurgency, c. 1916-73 12: Brian Drohan: Sinning Quietly: Law and Human Rights in British Colonial Counter-Insurgency 13: Tony Craig: Internment, imprisonment, interrogation, and resistance in low intensity conflict. Carceral warfare and republican paramilitaries in Northern Ireland 1968-c. 1988 Affiliations: Motivation and Mobilization 14: Gajendra Singh: The Place of Revolutionary Violence in India, 1905-1947: From Aberrant Nationalisms to the Nationalist Mainstream 15: Kent Fedorowich and Ian van der Waag: The Afrikaner Rebellion 1914-15: Internal Conflict and the Counterinsurgency Campaign 16: Daniel Branch: Unwanted Friends: Loyalty and Citizenship in Britain's Imperial Wars, 1899-1960 17: Roel Frakking: 'Independence or Death'? Rank and File Recruitment, Ideology, and Desertion during the Wars of Decolonization in Indonesia and Malaysia, ca. 1945-1960 18: Pierre Asselin: Hanoi's National Liberation Strategy, 1954-1975 19: Emily Bridger: Gender, Mobilisation, and Insurgency in South Africa: Young Comrades in the 1980s Township Uprisings 20: Neil Macmaster: Guns, Grain, and Gold: the peasant base of Algerian guerrilla logistics, c.1954-1957 21: Saphia Arezki: The insurgent strategies of the ALN in Algeria (1954-1962) 22: Edward Burke and Huw Bennett: The Aden Protectorate Levies, Counter-insurgency, and the Loyalist Bargain in South Arabia, 1951-1957 Development and Population Control 23: Moritz Feichtinger: Strategic Resettlement: Population Removal and Coercive Development in Late Colonial Counter-Insurgency 24: Andreas Stucki: Gendering Development and Social Control in the Iberian Empires in Africa, 1950s-1970s 25: Kate Bruce-Lockhart and Bethany Rebisz: Discourses of Development and Practices of Punishment: Britain's Gendered Counter-Insurgency Strategy in Colonial Kenya 26: Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and José Pedro Monteiro: The labours of (in)security in Portuguese late colonialism 27: Claudia Castello: (Un)settling late colonial Niassa, Mozambique (1966-1974): social knowledge, development, and counter-insurgency 28: Philip J. Havik: Mass Medicine, Disease Control, and Conflict: Collective Health Security During Late Colonialism in Africa 29: Phi-Vân Nguyen: Refugees in Violent Decolonizations 30: Christian Gerlach: Indonesian strategic resettlement and development policies in East Timor Beyond Borders: Transnational Dimensions 31: Aditya Kiran Kakati: Limits of sovereignty: developing blank spaces across Asian borders after the Second World War 32: Christopher Goscha: The Hunger General: Economic Warfare during the Indochina War 33: Elie Tenenbaum: A community of mavericks: circulating counterinsurgency knowledge in the West (1945-1975) 34: Mathilde von Bülow: Exile, Safe Havens, and Rear Bases: External Sanctuaries and the Transnational Dimension of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-insurgencies 35: Aaron Edwards: Dark Networks and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland Ending Insurgencies and the Afterlives of Violent Decolonisation 36: Maria Hadjiathanasiou: The Cyprus Revolt and the 'Prickly Subject' of Truces 37: Raphaëlle Branche: To forget and remember: the paradoxical legacy of French military actions in Algeria 38: Gareth Curless: Violence and (Dis)Order in the Caribbean PostColony: Guyana and Jamaica