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1 online resource (x, 280 pages) |
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Decolonization, Conflict and Counter-insurgency; Notes; Chapter 1 Seeing Like a Soldier: The Amritsar Massacre and the Politics of Military History1; Weaponizing history; Amritsar reimagined; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 2 Confronting Revolt in France's Interwar Empire: Counter-insurgency in 1920s Morocco and Syria; The colonial context; Targeted repression?; Counter-insurgency and asymmetry; Micro and macro factors; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3 The Plantation as Counter-insurgency Tool: Indonesia 1900-50 |
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The Indonesian plantation system as colonial spaceThe return to the plantations; The plantation as counter-insurgency tool; Revolutionary violence against the plantations; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4 The Sten Gun is Mightier than the Pen: The Failure of Colonial Police Reform after 1945; Colonial policing during the interwar years; From military to civil policing?; Policing the colonial endgame; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5 'A Litigious Island': Law, Rights and Counter-insurgency during the Cyprus Emergency; Law, empire and the Kenya Emergency; The Cypriot legal elite |
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The Emergency regulationsWaging 'lawfare'; Beyond colonial courts -- the 'human rights committees'; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6 'A Battle in the Field of Human Relations': The Official Minds of Repressive Development in Portuguese Angola; Thinking like a late colonial empire; 'Our new order'; The meaning of the 'economic'; 'Eliminating "empty spaces"'; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7 Strategic Villages: Forced Relocation, Counter-insurgency and Social Engineering in Kenya and Algeria, 1952-621; Social change and violence; Housing between relief and reward |
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Transformations of land use and labourConclusion; Notes; Chapter 8 Reconsidering Women's Roles in the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya, 1952-60; Warriors, 'spies' and 'eyes': Women in the Mau Mau; 'Better than a course of beauty treatment': Punishing women; Loyalist women; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 9 The Art of Counter-insurgency: Phase Analysis with Primary Reference to Malaya (1948-60), and Secondary Reference to Kenya (1952-60); Malayan phases; Counterterror in its first (1948) and second (1949) manifestations; Geodemographic control (April 1950 to June 1952) |
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Optimization (February 1952 to June 1954)Normalization and deep transition (1953 to 1960); Kenyan 'phases' and comparative counter-insurgency analysis; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 10 Rebel Sanctuaries and Late Colonial Conflict: The Case of West Germany during Algeria's War of Independence, 1954-62; Sanctuary and irregular warfare; Algeria's independence struggle; The FLN's West German sanctuary; The French response; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 11 David Galula and Maurice Papon: A Watershed in COIN Strategy in de Gaulle's Paris; David Galula: From Kabylia to Paris |
| Summary |
Insurgency-based irregular warfare typifies armed conflict in the post-Cold War age. For some years now, western and other governments have struggled to contend with ideologically driven guerrilla movements, religiously inspired militias, and systematic targeting of civilian populations. Numerous conflicts of this type are rooted in experiences of empire breakdown. Yet few multi-empire studies of decolonisation's violence exist. Decolonization and Conflict brings together expertise on a variety of different cases to offer new perspectives on the colonial conflicts that engulfed Europe's empires after 1945. The contributors analyse multiple forms of colonial counter-insurgency from the military engagement of anti-colonial movements to the forced removal of civilian populations and the application of new doctrines of psychological warfare. Contributors to the collection also show how insurgencies, their propaganda and methods of action were inherently transnational and inter-connected. The resulting study is a vital contribution to our understanding of contested decolonization. It emphasises the global connections at work and reveals the contemporary resonances of both anti-colonial insurgencies and the means devised to counter them |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Decolonization -- History
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General & world history.
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Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000.
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HISTORY -- Civilization.
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HISTORY -- Essays.
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HISTORY -- Reference.
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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Decolonization
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Thomas, Martin, editor
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Curless, Gareth, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781474250399 |
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9781474250412 |
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1474250394 |
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1474250408 |
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1474250416 |
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9781474250405 |
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