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Age of emergency : living with violence at the end of the British Empire / Erik Linstrum

Von: Linstrum, Erik [author]Materialtyp: TextTextSprache: EnglischVerlag: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2023Copyright-Datum: ©2023Auflage: 1st edBeschreibung: 1 online resource (329 pages)Inhaltstyp: Text Medientyp: Computermedien Datenträgertyp: Online ResourceISBN: 9780197572054Schlagwörter: Kolonialkrieg | Zypern | Kenia | Malaya | Großbritannien | Imperialism | Punishment-Great Britain | State-sponsored terrorism-Great BritainGenre/Form: Fernzugriff | Online-Ressourcen: Volltext
Inhalte:
Cover -- Age of Emergency -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Wars Were Like a Mist -- PART I: Knowing about Violence -- 1. Out of Apathy -- 2. War Stories -- PART II: Justifying Violence -- 3. Violence without Limits -- 4. The Claims of Conscience -- PART III: Living with Violence -- 5. Covering Colonial War -- 6. Performing Colonial War -- Epilogue: The Afterlives of Colonial Violence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Zusammenfassung: Age of Emergency examines how metropolitan Britons understood colonial violence in the two decades after V-E Day when "small wars" raged on the frontiers of empire in Malaya, Kenya, and Cyprus.

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Cover -- Age of Emergency -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Wars Were Like a Mist -- PART I: Knowing about Violence -- 1. Out of Apathy -- 2. War Stories -- PART II: Justifying Violence -- 3. Violence without Limits -- 4. The Claims of Conscience -- PART III: Living with Violence -- 5. Covering Colonial War -- 6. Performing Colonial War -- Epilogue: The Afterlives of Colonial Violence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Age of Emergency examines how metropolitan Britons understood colonial violence in the two decades after V-E Day when "small wars" raged on the frontiers of empire in Malaya, Kenya, and Cyprus.

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