Empires of Violence
Massacre in a Revolutionary Age
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 30 October 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350538641
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 236x156x24 mm
- Weight 660 g
- Language English 699
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many incursions into Europe. Yet how did the forms of violence perpetrated in these four corners of the world compare? Did the oppression and exploitation of colonized peoples constitute a new form of violence? Or was it the same that Europeans had always used against conquered peoples?
In this book, four experts specializing in four different regions of the world come together to interrogate the violence committed against Indigenous peoples between 1780 and 1820. Showing how violence and massacre were a tool at the disposal of the colonizer, and often used to subjugate unruly populations, they examine the changing nature of warfare and killing 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.
Table of 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 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
