Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation

Auteur(s) : Linstrum, Erik. Auteur du texte  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Age of emergency [Texte imprimé] : living with violence at the end of the British Empire / Erik Linstrum

Publication : New York : Oxford University Press, copyright [2023]

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (x, 313 pages) : illustrations ; 25 cm

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references p. 273-303 and index"When uprisings against colonial rule broke out across the world after 1945, Britain responded with overwhelming and brutal force. What did people in Britain know about the use of torture, summary executions, collective punishments, and other ruthless methods? How did they learn about the violence committed in Britain's name? And how did they learn to live with it? The brutality of counterinsurgencies in Malaya, Kenya, and Cyprus rippled through British society, molding a home front defined not by the mobilization of resources, but by moral uneasiness and the justifications they generated in response. Age of Emergency traces facts and feelings about atrocity as they moved through activist campaigns, soldiers' letters, missionary networks, newspaper stories, sermons, novels, plays, and television dramas. While many Britons voiced opposition to colonial violence, an array of tactics employed to undermine dissent proved decisive. Some contemporaries cast doubt on facts about brutality. Others stressed the unanticipated consequences of intervening to stop it. Still others celebrated visions of racial struggle or aestheticized the grim fatalism of dirty wars. Accommodating violence that was both remote and inescapable, duty-bound and depraved, necessary and futile, shaped the British experience of decolonization"

Sujet(s) : Terrorisme d'État -- Colonies britanniques -- XXe siècle  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet Punition -- Colonies britanniques -- XXe siècle  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet Administration -- Colonies britanniques -- XXe siècle  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  325.320 941 (23e éd.) = Impérialisme - Îles Britanniques  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780197572030. - ISBN 0197572030. - ISBN 9780197572054 (erroné). - ISBN 9780197572061 (erroné)

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb47257920m

Notice n° :  FRBNF47257920 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : Introduction: The Wars Were Like 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.