A Cultural History of Violence in the Age of Empire / edited by Amanda Nettelbeck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nettelbeck, Amanda, editor.

Series:

The Cultural Histories Series.

The Cultural Histories Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--History.

Violence.

Civilization--History.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

The nineteenth century marked a high point in western imperialism, when the industrial revolution stimulated the capacity of modern empires to expand their territorial, military and administrative reach across the globe. It is a truism today to say that all empires were intrinsically violent. But if violence was everywhere in empire, what was fundamentally ‘colonial’ about that violence? This book addresses that question by examining some of the multifaceted dimensions of colonial violence during the age of empire, 1800 to 1920. Drawing upon a wide range of archival sources, visual material, and fictional and non-fictional writings, contributors to the volume explore how colonial violence has been defined and understood, how it was enabled by certain technologies and strategies across different times and settings, how it appeared (or was otherwise made invisible) in the imperial worldview, and how colonized peoples responded to imperial oppression with their own struggles of resistance. The violence of empire infused everyday social relations and colonial cultures. It also generated debate about the moral legitimacy of empire and the capacity of colonized peoples to oppose imperial rule in ways that undermined the foundations of empire itself.

Contents:

Introduction, Amanda Nettlebeck (Australian Catholic University, Australia) 1. Understanding and Defining Violence, Tony Ballantyne (University of Otago, New Zealand) 2. Sacred Violence, Christopher Hartney (University of Sydney, Australia) 3. Spaces of Violence, Victoria Haskins and Fae Dussart (University of Newcastle, Australia and University of Sussex, UK) 4. Authority and Violence, Lisa Ford and Amanda Nettelbeck (University of New South Wales and Australian Catholic University, Australia) 5. Persecution, Oppression and Subjection, Michelle Gordon (Uppsala University, Sweden) 6. Emotion and Violence, Jane Lydon (University of Western Australia, Australia) 7. Visual Representations of Violence, Sean Willcock (University of Oxford, UK) 8. Literary Representations of Violence, Fariha Shaikh (University of Birmingham, UK) 9. Technologies of Violence, Martin Thomas (University of Exeter, UK)

ISBN:

9781350148413

OCLC:

1582442745