Age of emergency : living with violence at the end of the British Empire / Erik Linstrum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Linstrum, Erik, 1983- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Violence.

Imperialism.

Great Britain--Colonies--Administration--History--20th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

'Age of Emergency' examines how metropolitan Britons understood colonial violence in the two decades after V-E Day when 'small wars' raged on the frontiers of empire in Malaya, Kenya, and Cyprus.

Contents:

Cover

Age of Emergency

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Wars Were Like a Mist

PART I: Knowing about Violence

1. Out of Apathy

2. War Stories

PART II: Justifying Violence

3. Violence without Limits

4. The Claims of Conscience

PART III: Living with Violence

5. Covering Colonial War

6. Performing Colonial War

Epilogue: The Afterlives of Colonial Violence

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 19, 2023).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Linstrum, Erik Age of Emergency

ISBN:

0-19-757206-5

0-19-757205-7

0-19-757204-9

OCLC:

1373348260