The Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies

by Thomas, Martin; Curless, Gareth

• ISBN13: 9780198866787
• ISBN10: 019886678X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-12-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Martin Thomas, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Exeter,Gareth Curless, Professor of Imperial History, University of Exeter

Martin Thomas is Professor of Imperial History at the University of Exeter, where he has taught since 2003. He is co-director of Exeter's Centre for Histories of Violence and Conflict, which brings together researchers with interests in historical approaches to studying collective violence, its meanings, and impacts. He is a past winner of a Philip Leverhulme research prize and a holder of Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowships. He is also a fellow of the Independent Social Research Foundation. He works on decolonization and political violence.

Gareth Curless is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Exeter, where he has taught since 2013. He is a historian of decolonization, with a particular interest in histories of work, class, and the 'labour question' at the end of empire.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Revisiting the Violent Collapse of Empires, Martin Thomas
Approaches to Insurgent and Counter-Insurgent Violence
1. Beyond the State/Rebel Dichotomy in Twentieth Century African Warfare, Jonathan Krause and Miles Larmer
2. Counterinsurgency and the Russian 'Way of War', Alex Marshall
3. Fire as Revolution and Repression: Revolutionary Ireland in Perspective, Gemma Clark
4. Insurgencies in early post-colonial Indonesia, Peter Keppy, Abdul Wahid, and Bart Luttikhuis
5. Humanitarian Illusions: American Counterinsurgency, From the Indians Wars to the Global War on Terror, Jeremy Kuzmarov
6. Sources, Methods, and the Violence of Insurgency in Northern Ireland, Rachel Kowalski
'Rules of the game': Law, Doctrine, and Propaganda
7. Decolonization's Wars and the Civilianization of Violence, Martin Thomas
8. The Architecture of Colonial Control: Britain's Pacification of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-1939, Matthew Hughes
9. Late colonial counterinsurgency as an intellectual challenge: the development of Dutch tactical doctrine during the Indonesian War, 1945-1949, Christiaan Harinck
10. The Geneva Conventions, Insurgency, and Decolonization, Boyd van Dijk
11. 'More an Inspiration than a Deterrent'? Capital Punishment and British Colonial Counter-Insurgency, c. 1916-73, Stacey Hynd
12. Sinning Quietly: Law and Human Rights in British Colonial Counter-Insurgency, Brian Drohan
13. Internment, imprisonment, interrogation, and resistance in low intensity conflict. Carceral warfare and republican paramilitaries in Northern Ireland 1968-c. 1988, Tony Craig
Affiliations: Motivation and Mobilization
14. The Place of Revolutionary Violence in India, 1905-1947: From Aberrant Nationalisms to the Nationalist Mainstream, Gajendra Singh
15. The Afrikaner Rebellion 1914-15: Internal Conflict and the Counterinsurgency Campaign, Kent Fedorowich and Ian van der Waag
16. Unwanted Friends: Loyalty and Citizenship in Britain's Imperial Wars, 1899-1960, Daniel Branch
17. 'Independence or Death'? Rank and File Recruitment, Ideology, and Desertion during the Wars of Decolonization in Indonesia and Malaysia, ca. 1945-1960, Roel Frakking
18. Hanoi's National Liberation Strategy, 1954-1975, Pierre Asselin
19. Gender, Mobilisation, and Insurgency in South Africa: Young Comrades in the 1980s Township Uprisings, Emily Bridger
20. Guns, Grain, and Gold: the peasant base of Algerian guerrilla logistics, c.1954-1957, Neil Macmaster
21. The insurgent strategies of the ALN in Algeria (1954-1962), Saphia Arezki
22. The Aden Protectorate Levies, Counter-insurgency, and the Loyalist Bargain in South Arabia, 1951-1957, Edward Burke and Huw Bennett
Development and Population Control
23. Strategic Resettlement: Population Removal and Coercive Development in Late Colonial Counter-Insurgency, Moritz Feichtinger
24. Gendering Development and Social Control in the Iberian Empires in Africa, 1950s-1970s, Andreas Stucki
25. Discourses of Development and Practices of Punishment: Britain's Gendered Counter-Insurgency Strategy in Colonial Kenya, Kate Bruce-Lockhart and Bethany Rebisz
26. The labours of (in)security in Portuguese late colonialism, Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and José Pedro Monteiro
27. (Un)settling late colonial Niassa, Mozambique (1966-1974): social knowledge, development, and counter-insurgency, Claudia Castello
28. Mass Medicine, Disease Control, and Conflict: Collective Health Security During Late Colonialism in Africa, Philip J. Havik
29. Refugees in Violent Decolonizations, Phi-Vân Nguyen
30. Indonesian strategic resettlement and development policies in East Timor, Christian Gerlach
Beyond Borders: Transnational Dimensions
31. Limits of sovereignty: developing blank spaces across Asian borders after the Second World War, Aditya Kiran Kakati
32. The Hunger General: Economic Warfare during the Indochina War, Christopher Goscha
33. A community of mavericks: circulating counterinsurgency knowledge in the West (1945-1975), Elie Tenenbaum
34. Exile, Safe Havens, and Rear Bases: External Sanctuaries and the Transnational Dimension of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-insurgencies, Mathilde von Bülow
35. Dark Networks and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland, Aaron Edwards
Ending Insurgencies and the Afterlives of Violent Decolonisation
36. The Cyprus Revolt and the 'Prickly Subject' of Truces, Maria Hadjiathanasiou
37. To forget and remember: the paradoxical legacy of French military actions in Algeria, Raphaëlle Branche
38. Violence and (Dis)Order in the Caribbean PostColony: Guyana and Jamaica, Gareth Curless