Empire's Violent End: Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945–1962
Thijs Brocades Zaalberg, "Empire's Violent End: Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945–1962"
English | ISBN: 1501764144 | 2022 | 246 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 6 MB
English | ISBN: 1501764144 | 2022 | 246 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 6 MB
In Empire's Violent End, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis, along with expert contributors, present comparative research focused specifically on excessive violence in Indonesia, Algeria, Vietnam, Malaysia, Kenya, and other areas during the wars of decolonization. In the last two decades, there have been heated public and scholarly debates in France, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands on the violent end of empire. Nevertheless, the broader comparative investigations into colonial counterinsurgency tend to leave atrocities such as torture, execution, and rape in the margins. The editors describe how such comparisons mostly focus on the differences by engaging in "guilt ranking." Moreover, the dramas that have unfolded in Algeria and Kenya tend to overshadow similar violent events in Indonesia, the very first nation to declare independence directly after World War II.
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