An eye-opening account of how Violence was experienced not just on the frontlines of colonial terror but at home in imperial Britain.
Vividly analyzing how far-off atrocities became domestic problems, Age of Emergency shows that the compromising entanglements of war extended far beyond the conflict zones of empire..
Through their voices, Erik Linstrum narrates what Violence looked, heard, and felt like as an Empire ended, a history with unsettling echoes in our own time.
Still others aestheticized Violence by celebrating visions of racial struggle or dramatizing the grim fatalism of dirty wars.
Others stressed the unanticipated consequences of intervening to stop it.
Some contemporaries cast doubt on facts about violence.
As knowledge of brutality spread, so did the tactics of accommodation aimed at undermining it.
It examines how Britons at home learned to live with colonial warfare by examining activist campaigns, soldiers\' letters, missionary networks, newspaper stories, television dramas, sermons, novels, and plays.
Age of Emergency traces facts and feelings about Violence as torture, summary executions, collective punishments, and other ruthless methods were employed in states of emergency.
Ruthless counterinsurgencies in Malaya, Kenya, and Cyprus rippled through British society, molding a home front defined not by the mass mobilization of resources, but by sentiments of uneasiness and the justifications they generated.
Although this period has conventionally been dubbed postwar, it was punctuated by a succession of hard-fought, long-running conflicts that were geographically diffuse, morally ambiguous, and impervious to neat endings or declarations of victory.
When uprisings against colonial rule broke out across the world after 1945, Britain responded with overwhelming and brutal force.
An eye-opening account of how Violence was experienced not just on the frontlines of colonial terror but at home in imperial Britain
