European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960 (eBook)

Victor G Kiernan (Autor)

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2024 | Ebook UK & RoW
304 Seiten
Verso (Verlag)
978-1-80429-108-5 (ISBN)

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European Empires from Conquest to Collapse is a vivid anticolonial reckoning with the history of imperial warfare. Global in scope, it deftly surveys the fighting forces and military engagements of the Great Powers, from the British in India to the scramble for Africa. Victor Kiernan lays bare the doctrines and realities of colonial fighting, dispelling official legends. Europe often boasted that coloni- alism was 'civilised', but the facts show it could be barbaric. Kiernan traces how guerrilla insurgency against colonial oppression developed into one of the most sophisticated branches of the art of war.With a foreword by Tariq Ali, author of Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.4.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Verso World History
• Vorwort: Tariq Ali
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Britain’s Gulag • British India • Capitalism and Slavery • Colonialism • Decolonisation • elkins • Frantz Fanon • imperialism • Indian Mutiny • Legacy of Violence • Orientalism • Scramble for Africa • the sleepwalkers • Winds of change • Wretched of the Earth
• ISBN-10: 1-80429-108-0 / 1804291080
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80429-108-5 / 9781804291085