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Philip Dwyer, Barbara Alice Mann, Nigel Penn, Lyndall Ryan - Empires of Violence, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Empires of Violence

Massacre in a Revolutionary Age

Av Philip Dwyer, Barbara Alice Mann, Nigel Penn, Lyndall Ryan

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Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire’s many incursions into Europe. Yet how did the forms of violence perpetrated in these four corners of the world compare? Did the oppression and exploitation of colonized peoples constitute a new form of violence? Or was it the same that Europeans had always used against conquered peoples?In this book, four experts specializing in four different regions of the world come together to interrogate the violence committed against Indigenous peoples between 1780 and 1820. Showing how violence and massacre were a tool at the disposal of the colonizer, and often used to subjugate unruly populations, they examine the changing nature of warfare and killing from both a European and Indigenous perspective. Empires of Violence shows how race, othering and fear were maintained and buoyed by violence, in spite of prevailing discourses on humanitarianism, civilization and progress.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-10-30
  • Mått: 156 x 236 x 24 mm
  • Vikt: 660 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 344
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781350538641
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Philip Dwyer is Emeritus Professor of History at University of Newcastle, Australia, and former Director of the Centre for the History of Violence.Barbara Alice Mann is Emeritus Professor of Humanities in the Jesup Scott Honors College at the University of Toledo, USA.Nigel Penn is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.Lyndall Ryan was Emeritus Professor of History at University of Newcastle, Australia.

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An important book- well written and engaging to read. But also particularly timely joining a growing corpus of studies which are now reassessing the history of the great European empires which coincides with the dramatic shift of economic and political power from the West to South and South-East Asia. The four authors bring their local expertise together and are able to meld their studies of South Africa, Australia, America and the Napoleonic Empire together in an innovative and challenging way. They also juxtapose the extreme violence underpinning empire between 1780 and 1820 with what has also been seen as the height of the European enlightenment.

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