A global study of violence on four colonial frontiers to explore the dynamics of massacre in a comparative perspective, and to re-think the past oppression and exploitation of colonized peoples.
A global study of violence on four colonial frontiers to explore the dynamics of massacre in a comparative perspective, and to re-think the past oppression and exploitation of colonized peoples.
Philip Dwyer is Emeritus Professor of History and founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has written extensively on the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras and on the history of violence. His latest book, with Barbara Mann, Nigel Penn, and Lyndall Ryan, is Empires of Violence: Massacre in a Revolutionary Age (2025).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. A Revolutionary Age in a Global Context 2. Ways of Being, Ways of Seeing 3. Local and Indigenous Ways of Warfare 4. The Logic of Violence and Massacre on the Imperial Frontier 5. Massacre, the State, and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 6. The Colony of New South Wales 7. 'Determining to Exterminate Them' in 'Terror in Desolation': Massacre in North America 8. 'Striking Terror into the Enemy': The Ethnic Cleansing of the Zuurveld Epilogue: Reflections on Massacre and Colonial Violence in a Revolutionary Age Notes Bibliography Index
Introduction 1. A Revolutionary Age in a Global Context 2. Ways of Being, Ways of Seeing 3. Local and Indigenous Ways of Warfare 4. The Logic of Violence and Massacre on the Imperial Frontier 5. Massacre, the State, and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 6. The Colony of New South Wales 7. 'Determining to Exterminate Them' in 'Terror in Desolation': Massacre in North America 8. 'Striking Terror into the Enemy': The Ethnic Cleansing of the Zuurveld Epilogue: Reflections on Massacre and Colonial Violence in a Revolutionary Age Notes Bibliography Index
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