‘Savage Wars of Peace’: Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World

Title: ‘Savage Wars of Peace’: Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World
Creator: Dwyer, Philip; Nettelbeck, Amanda
Relation: Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World p. 1-22
Relation: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62923-0_1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2018
Description: Violence has always been central to the complex histories of empire that reach back over four centuries of the ‘modern era’. As an integral part of the social, legal, economic and gendered foundations on which colonial relations were built, violence was diffuse, multi-layered and enormously variable. Yet although the foundational role of violence in the process of empire-building is now widely accepted, we still need to pay closer attention to the structural relationship between colonialism, empire and violence beyond individual, spectacular moments in imperial history. This chapter considers colonial violence in a comparative context in order to identify some of its shared expressions, technologies and legacies.
Subject: violence; colonialism; empire-building; colonial violence
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1446252
Identifier: uon:42810
Identifier: ISBN:9783319629230
Language: eng