Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire Erik Linstrum

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197572030
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197572030
• Author(s): Erik Linstrum

When uprisings against colonial rule broke out across the world after 1945, Britain responded with overwhelming and brutal force. Although this period has conventionally been dubbed “postwar,” it was punctuated by a succession of hard-fought, long-running conflicts that were geographically diffuse, morally ambiguous, and impervious to neat endings or declarations of victory. Ruthless counterinsurgencies in Malaya, Kenya, and Cyprus rippled through British society, molding a home front defined not by the mass mobilization of resources, but by sentiments of uneasiness and the justifications they generated.

Age of Emergency traces facts and feelings about violence as torture, summary executions, collective punishments, and other ruthless methods were employed in “states of emergency.” It examines how Britons at home learned to live with colonial warfare by examining activist campaigns, soldiers’ letters, missionary networks, newspaper stories, television dramas, sermons, novels, and plays. As knowledge of brutality spread, so did the tactics of accommodation aimed at undermining it. Some contemporaries cast doubt on facts about violence. Others stressed the unanticipated consequences of intervening to stop it. Still others aestheticized violence by celebrating visions of racial struggle or dramatizing the grim fatalism of dirty wars. Through their voices, Erik Linstrum narrates what violence looked, heard, and felt like as an empire ended, a history with unsettling echoes in our own time.

Table contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Wars Were Like a Mist
Part I: Knowing about Violence
Chapter 1: Out of Apathy
Chapter 2: War Stories
Part II: Justifying Violence
Chapter 3: Violence without Limits
Chapter 4: The Claims of Conscience
Part III: Living with Violence
Chapter 5: Covering Counterinsurgency
Chapter 6: Performing Counterinsurgency
Epilogue: The Afterlives of Colonial War
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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