Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World

1. ‘Savage Wars of Peace’: Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World
Philip Dwyer, Amanda Nettelbeck

Part I. Colonial Violence and ‘Ways of Seeing’

2. The Psychology of Colonial Violence
Richard N. Price

3. Colonial Violence and the Picturesque
Elizabeth Mjelde

4. Categories of Conquest and Colonial Control: The French in Tonkin, 1884–1914
James R. Lehning

Part II. Colonial Authority and the Violence of Law

5. Martial Law in the British Empire
Lyndall Ryan

6. Flogging as Judicial Violence: The Colonial Rationale of Corporal Punishment
Amanda Nettelbeck

7. Seeing like a Policeman: Everyday Violence in British India, c. 1900–1950
Radha Kumar

Part III. Dynamics of Colonial Warfare

8. The Dynamics of British Colonial Violence
Michelle Gordon

9. Disciplining Native Masculinities: Colonial Violence in Malaya, ‘Land of the Pirate and the Amok’
Jialin Christina Wu

10. Fascist Violence and the ‘Ethnic Reconstruction’ of Cyrenaica (Libya), 1922–1934
Michael R. Ebner

Part IV. Repression and Resistance

11. Contesting Colonial Violence in New Caledonia
Adrian Muckle

12. From Liberation to Elimination: Violence and Resistance in Japan’s Southeast Asia, 1942–1945
Kelly Maddox

13. Nothing to Report? Challenging Dutch Discourse on Colonial Counterinsurgency in Indonesia, 1945–1949
Bart Luttikhuis, C. H. C. Harinck

Nyckelord: History, Imperialism and Colonialism, World History, Global and Transnational History, Social History, Modern History