Linstrum, Erik.

Age of emergency : living with violence at the end of the British Empire Erik Linstrum - 1st ed. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2023. ©2023. - 1 online resource (329 pages)

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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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Kolonialkrieg


Zypern
Kenia
Malaya
Großbritannien

Imperialism. Punishment-Great Britain State-sponsored terrorism-Great Britain


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