Empires of violence : massacre in a revolutionary age / Philip Dwyer, Barbara Alice Mann, Nigel Penn and Lyndall Ryan.
| Author/creator | Dwyer, Philip author. |
| Other author | Mann, Barbara Alice, 1947- author. |
| Other author | Penn, Nigel, author. |
| Other author | Ryan, Lyndall, 1943- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. |
| Description | xv, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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 and desolation' : massacre in North America -- 8. 'Striking terror into the enemy' : the ethnic cleansing of the Zuurveld -- Epilogue. |
| Abstract | "This comparative, global study of violence on the colonial frontier from 1780 to 1820 looks at four regions of the world: the expansion of Britain into the Australian and African continents, the westward and southern expansion of the United States, and the expansion of France in Europe during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. It seeks to re-think the past oppression and exploitation of colonized peoples by placing the violence committed against them in a comparative perspective. Violence and massacre were a tool at the disposal of the colonizer, and often used to subjugate unruly populations. In this book four experts specializing in four different regions of the world come together to interrogate the violence committed against indigenous peoples of these countries, and to ask whether this was a new form of violence, or the same that Europeans had always used against conquered peoples? Examining the changing nature of warfare and killing that occurred on colonial frontiers from both a European and indigenous perspective, Empires of Violence shows how race, othering and fear were maintained and buoyed by violence, in spite of prevailing discourses on humanitarianism, civilization and progress" --Publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-319) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Electronic version: Dwyer, Philip G. Empires of violence. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025 9781350538665 |
| ISBN | 9781350538634 |
| ISBN | 1350538639 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781350538641 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1350538647 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ePub ebook) |
| ISBN | (online) |
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