{"product_id":"decolonization-and-conflict-colonial-comparisons-and-legacies-9781474250375","title":"Decolonization and Conflict Colonial Comparisons and Legacies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartin Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Imperial History at the University of Exeter, UK, where he is Director of the Centre for the Study of War, State and Society. His recent publications include \u003ci\u003eViolence and Colonial Order\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), \u003ci\u003eFight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) and he is co-author of \u003ci\u003eCrises of Empire: Decolonization and Europe's Imperial States, 1918-1975\u003c\/i\u003e (2015).\u003cb\u003eGareth Curless\u003c\/b\u003e is an ESRC Future Research Leader (2013-16) and a Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Exeter, UK. He is currently working on a monograph that investigates the relationship between labour unrest and decolonization in the British Empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eO?ers a valuable tour d’horizon of emerging scholarship ... [Includes] informative and thought-provoking case studies. * Journal of Contemporary History *\u003cbr\u003eIn this collection of essays, Thomas and Curless have brought together some of the best historians of 20th century imperialism to discuss the relationship between warfare and the end of empire. The result is a provocative and enlightening book which offers insights into some of the most important topics in the field including imperial policing, modernisation, gender and the colonial legacy. It marks a major advance in our understanding of the wars of European decolonisation. * Spencer Mawby, University of Nottingham, UK *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a unique volume spanning an impressive range of insurgency situations. It marks a forceful intervention in recent debates regarding decolonization era conflicts, offering fascinating case studies and fresh historiographical and intellectual perspectives. * Ashley Jackson, King's College London, UK *\u003cbr\u003eMartin Thomas and Gareth Curless have produced a uniformly outstanding anthology that will long remain the last word on comparative colonialism between 1920 and 1970. The book demolishes the claims of both imperial apologists, and rosy post-colonial historiography to point convincingly to the affects of colonial violence, hypocrisy, and militarized policing on both the post-colonial state, and the former colonial metropole. This book makes depressing, but illuminating reading for those wishing to understand, for example, why police departments in Europe and America storm immigrant and minority neighborhoods with body armor, automatic weapons, and armored vehicles in the new century. * Michael Provence, University of California, San Diego, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Decolonization, Conflict and Counter-Insurgency, \u003ci\u003eMartin Thomas and Gareth Curless (both University of Exeter, UK) \u003c\/i\u003e 1. Seeing Like a Soldier: The Amritsar Massacre and the Politics of Military History, \u003ci\u003eKim Wagner (Queen Mary University, London, UK) \u003c\/i\u003e2. Confronting Revolt in France's Interwar Europe: Counterinsurgency in 1920s Morocco and Syria, \u003ci\u003eMartin Thomas (University of Exeter, UK) \u003c\/i\u003e3. The Plantation as Counter-Insurgency Tool: Indonesia 1900-50, \u003ci\u003eRoel Frakking, (European University Institute, Italy)\u003c\/i\u003e 4. The Sten Gun is Mightier than the Pen: The Failure of Colonial Police Reform after 1945, \u003ci\u003eGareth Curless, (University of Exeter, UK) \u003c\/i\u003e5. 'A Litigious Island': Law, Rights, and Counter-Insurgency during the Cyprus Emergency, \u003ci\u003eBrian Drohan, (University of North Carolina, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 6. 'A Battle in the Field of Human Relations': The Official Minds of Repressive Development in Portuguese Angola, \u003ci\u003eMiguel Bandeira Jerónimo, (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) \u003c\/i\u003e7. Strategic Villages: Forced Relocation, Counterinsurgency and Social Engineering in Kenya and Algeria, 1952-1962, \u003ci\u003eMoritz Feichtinger, (University of Bern, Switzerland)\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Reconsidering Women's Roles in the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya, 1952-1960, \u003ci\u003eKatherine Bruce-Lockhart,(University of Cambridge, UK)  \u003c\/i\u003e9. The Art of Counter-insurgency: Phase Analysis with Primary Reference to Malaya (1948-60), and Secondary Reference to Kenya (1952-60), \u003ci\u003eKarl Hack, (Open University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e   10. Rebel Sanctuaries and Late Colonial Conflicts: The Case of Federal Germany during Algeria’s War of Independence, 1954-1962, \u003ci\u003eMathilde von Bülow, (University of Glasgow, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 11. David Galula and Maurice Papon: A Watershed in COIN Strategy in de Gaulle's Paris, \u003ci\u003eEmmanuel Blanchard, (Université de Versailles, France) and Neil MacMaster, (University of East Anglia, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  12. Escaping the Empire's Shadow: British Military Thinking about Insurgency on the eve of the Northern Ireland Troubles \u003ci\u003e(Huw Bennett, Aberystwyth University, UK) \u003c\/i\u003e13. Shadow Warriors: The Phoenix Program and American Clandestine Policing in Vietnam \u003ci\u003e(Jeremy Kuzmarov, University of Tulsa, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084949909847,"sku":"9781474250375","price":33.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474250375.jpg?v=1762207684","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/decolonization-and-conflict-colonial-comparisons-and-legacies-9781474250375","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}