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Decolonization and Conflict : Colonial Comparisons and Legacies.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (291 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781474250405
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 303.64
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Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Decolonization, Conflict and Counter-insurgency -- Notes -- Chapter 1 Seeing Like a Soldier: The Amritsar Massacre and the Politics of Military History1 -- Weaponizing history -- Amritsar reimagined -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Confronting Revolt in France's Interwar Empire: Counter-insurgency in 1920s Morocco and Syria -- The colonial context -- Targeted repression? -- Counter-insurgency and asymmetry -- Micro and macro factors -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 The Plantation as Counter-insurgency Tool: Indonesia 1900-50 -- The Indonesian plantation system as colonial space -- The return to the plantations -- The plantation as counter-insurgency tool -- Revolutionary violence against the plantations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The Sten Gun is Mightier than the Pen: The Failure of Colonial Police Reform after 1945 -- Colonial policing during the interwar years -- From military to civil policing? -- Policing the colonial endgame -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5 'A Litigious Island': Law, Rights and Counter-insurgency during the Cyprus Emergency -- Law, empire and the Kenya Emergency -- The Cypriot legal elite -- The Emergency regulations -- Waging 'lawfare' -- Beyond colonial courts - the 'human rights committees' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6 'A Battle in the Field of Human Relations': The Official Minds of Repressive Development in Portuguese Angola -- Thinking like a late colonial empire -- 'Our new order' -- The meaning of the 'economic' -- 'Eliminating "empty spaces"' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Strategic Villages: Forced Relocation, Counter-insurgency and Social Engineering in Kenya and Algeria, 1952-621 -- Social change and violence -- Housing between relief and reward -- Transformations of land use and labour.
Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Reconsidering Women's Roles in the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya, 1952-60 -- Warriors, 'spies' and 'eyes': Women in the Mau Mau -- 'Better than a course of beauty treatment': Punishing women -- Loyalist women -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 9 The Art of Counter-insurgency: Phase Analysis with Primary Reference to Malaya (1948-60), and Secondary Reference to Kenya (1952-60) -- Malayan phases -- Counterterror in its first (1948) and second (1949) manifestations -- Geodemographic control (April 1950 to June 1952) -- Optimization (February 1952 to June 1954) -- Normalization and deep transition (1953 to 1960) -- Kenyan 'phases' and comparative counter-insurgency analysis -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Rebel Sanctuaries and Late Colonial Conflict: The Case of West Germany during Algeria's War of Independence, 1954-62 -- Sanctuary and irregular warfare -- Algeria's independence struggle -- The FLN's West German sanctuary -- The French response -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 11 David Galula and Maurice Papon: A Watershed in COIN Strategy in de Gaulle's Paris -- David Galula: From Kabylia to Paris -- Maurice Papon: Head of a Parisian COIN strategy -- Notes -- Chapter 12 Escaping the Empire's Shadow: British Military Thinking about Insurgency on the Eve of the Northern Ireland Troubles1 -- Drawing on personal experience -- Studying the colonial past to prepare for insurgencies in the future -- Searching globally for inspiration on insurgency -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 13 Shadow Warriors: The Phoenix Program and American Clandestine Policing in Vietnam -- 'Suppressing dissidence before military-type action was necessary': 1290-d, the OPS and roots of Phoenix -- Containing the 'virus' of independent nationalism: Police training and 'nation-building' in South Vietnam.
'The numbers just don't add up': Phoenix and state terrorism in the shadow war -- 'You ask me where is hell …' Prison overcrowding and the 'Tiger Cages' of Con Son -- 'You have to not mind killing innocents': Phoenix's long staying power -- Notes -- Index.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Decolonization, Conflict and Counter-insurgency -- Notes -- Chapter 1 Seeing Like a Soldier: The Amritsar Massacre and the Politics of Military History1 -- Weaponizing history -- Amritsar reimagined -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Confronting Revolt in France's Interwar Empire: Counter-insurgency in 1920s Morocco and Syria -- The colonial context -- Targeted repression? -- Counter-insurgency and asymmetry -- Micro and macro factors -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 The Plantation as Counter-insurgency Tool: Indonesia 1900-50 -- The Indonesian plantation system as colonial space -- The return to the plantations -- The plantation as counter-insurgency tool -- Revolutionary violence against the plantations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The Sten Gun is Mightier than the Pen: The Failure of Colonial Police Reform after 1945 -- Colonial policing during the interwar years -- From military to civil policing? -- Policing the colonial endgame -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5 'A Litigious Island': Law, Rights and Counter-insurgency during the Cyprus Emergency -- Law, empire and the Kenya Emergency -- The Cypriot legal elite -- The Emergency regulations -- Waging 'lawfare' -- Beyond colonial courts - the 'human rights committees' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6 'A Battle in the Field of Human Relations': The Official Minds of Repressive Development in Portuguese Angola -- Thinking like a late colonial empire -- 'Our new order' -- The meaning of the 'economic' -- 'Eliminating "empty spaces"' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Strategic Villages: Forced Relocation, Counter-insurgency and Social Engineering in Kenya and Algeria, 1952-621 -- Social change and violence -- Housing between relief and reward -- Transformations of land use and labour.

Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Reconsidering Women's Roles in the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya, 1952-60 -- Warriors, 'spies' and 'eyes': Women in the Mau Mau -- 'Better than a course of beauty treatment': Punishing women -- Loyalist women -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 9 The Art of Counter-insurgency: Phase Analysis with Primary Reference to Malaya (1948-60), and Secondary Reference to Kenya (1952-60) -- Malayan phases -- Counterterror in its first (1948) and second (1949) manifestations -- Geodemographic control (April 1950 to June 1952) -- Optimization (February 1952 to June 1954) -- Normalization and deep transition (1953 to 1960) -- Kenyan 'phases' and comparative counter-insurgency analysis -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Rebel Sanctuaries and Late Colonial Conflict: The Case of West Germany during Algeria's War of Independence, 1954-62 -- Sanctuary and irregular warfare -- Algeria's independence struggle -- The FLN's West German sanctuary -- The French response -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 11 David Galula and Maurice Papon: A Watershed in COIN Strategy in de Gaulle's Paris -- David Galula: From Kabylia to Paris -- Maurice Papon: Head of a Parisian COIN strategy -- Notes -- Chapter 12 Escaping the Empire's Shadow: British Military Thinking about Insurgency on the Eve of the Northern Ireland Troubles1 -- Drawing on personal experience -- Studying the colonial past to prepare for insurgencies in the future -- Searching globally for inspiration on insurgency -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 13 Shadow Warriors: The Phoenix Program and American Clandestine Policing in Vietnam -- 'Suppressing dissidence before military-type action was necessary': 1290-d, the OPS and roots of Phoenix -- Containing the 'virus' of independent nationalism: Police training and 'nation-building' in South Vietnam.

'The numbers just don't add up': Phoenix and state terrorism in the shadow war -- 'You ask me where is hell …' Prison overcrowding and the 'Tiger Cages' of Con Son -- 'You have to not mind killing innocents': Phoenix's long staying power -- Notes -- Index.

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