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  title info:
    title: Extreme violence and the 'British way'
    sub title: colonial warfare in Perak, Sierra Leone and Sudan
  name:
    name part: Gordon, Michelle
    name part: 1980-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Analyzing three cases of British colonial violence that occurred in the latter half of the 19th century, this book argues that all three share commonalities, including the role of racial prejudices in justifying the perpetration of extreme colonial violence. Exploring the connections and comparisons between the Perak War (1875-76), the 'Hut Tax' Revolt in Sierra Leone (1898-99) and the Anglo-Egyptian War of Reconquest in the Sudan (1896-99), Gordon highlights the significance of decision making processes, communication between London and the periphery and the influence of individual colonial administrators in outbreaks of violence. This study reveals the ways in which racial prejudices, the advocacy of a British 'civilizing mission' and British racial 'superiority' informed colonial administrators' decisions on the ground, as well as the rationalization of extreme violence. Responding to a neglect of British colonial atrocities within the historiography of colonial violence, this work demonstrates the ways in which Britain was just as willing and able as other European empires to resort to extreme measures in the face of indigenous resistance or threats to the British imperial project.
  table of contents: Introduction: The Place of Colonial Violence within the History of the British Empire -- A 'Little War' in Perak: British Intervention, 1875- -- British Suppression of the 'Hut Tax' War in Sierra Leone, 1898- -- The Anglo-Egyptian Reconquest of Sudan, 1896- -- Conclusion: Was there a British Way in Colonial Warfare?
  note: Michelle Gordon.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-249) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
    geographic code: f-sj---
    geographic code: f-sl---
    geographic code: a-my---
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History, Military
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Violence
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Colonies
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Colonies
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Colonies
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Perak War, Malaya, 1875-1876
  subject:
    geographic: Sudan
    topic: History
    temporal: Conquest, 1896-1899
  subject:
    topic: Hut Tax War, Sierra Leone, 1898
  subject:
    topic: British
    geographic: Sudan
  subject:
    topic: British
    geographic: Sierra Leone
  subject:
    topic: British
    geographic: Malaysia
    geographic: Perak
  classification: DA68 .G67 2021
  classification: 355.0209171/24109034
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Empire's other histories
  identifier: 9781350156883
  identifier: 1350156884
  identifier: 9781350156890
  identifier: 9781350156906
  identifier: 2020023035
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200603
    record change date: 20210326145402.0
    record identifier: in00004425814