Empires of Violence : Massacre in a Revolutionary Age.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dwyer, Philip.

Contributor:

Mann, Barbara Alice.

Penn, Nigel.

Ryan, Lyndall.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Maps

A Note on the Use of Names

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 A Revolutionary Age in a Global Context

Global Colonial Connections

Violence, Massacre and Colonialism

The Massacre on the Colonial Frontier

The Changing Nature of Violence, Warfare and Race

2 Ways of Being, Ways of Seeing

Indigenous People of Southern Africa

The Indigenous Nations of the Eastern Woodlands

Aboriginal People on the Southeast Coast of New South Wales and Tasmania

Indigenous Attitudes towards the Land

3 Local and Indigenous Ways of Warfare

Indigenous American Ways of Warfare

Indigenous Australian Ways of Warfare

Revolt and Rebellion in French-Occupied Europe

4 The Logic of Violence and Massacre on the Imperial Frontier

A Rhetoric of Hate

The Dynamics of Violence and Massacre on the Frontier

Atrocities on the Frontier

5 Massacre, the State and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Violence as a State Response

Setting an Example: The Politics of Elimination

Atrocities and the Dehumanization of the European Other

Ideology and the Cleansing Force of Fire

A Transition to the Ordered, Modern Massacre

6 The Colony of New South Wales

Escalating Violence, 1793-1810

The Hawkesbury River Frontier, 1794-1810

New South Wales, 1802

Pemulwuy's War, 1792-1802

Fear of the French: The British Claim Van Diemen's Land, 1802-4

Risdon Cove, 3 May 1804

Violence and Massacre, February-April 1816

7 'Determining to Exterminate Them' in 'Terror and Desolation': Massacre in North America

The Shawnee of Ohio

The Miami of Indiana

The Muscogee of Alabama

8 'Striking Terror into the Enemy': The Ethnic Cleansing of the Zuurveld

The Northern Frontier and the General Commando.

The Eastern Frontier Wars

The Second British Occupation

Clearing the Zuurveld, 1812

Sealing Off the Zuurveld, the Spoor Law and the Prophet

The Fifth Frontier War, 1818-19

Epilogue

The Killing Continues

Global Connections, Violent Attributes

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-350-53865-5

OCLC:

1535405803