Communal violence in the British Empire : disturbing the Pax / Mark Doyle
- Bib ID:
- 7202683
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Doyle, Mark, 1977-, author
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016
- xi, 283 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9781474268257 (hardback)
- 1474268250 (hardback)
- 9781474268240 (paperback)
- 1474268242 (paperback)
- Invalid ISBN:
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- 9781474268271 (PDF)
- 9781474268264 (ePub)
- Summary:
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"The first comprehensive study of religious, ethnic and communal violence in the British Empire"--
"Communal Violence in the British Empire focuses on how Britons interpreted, policed, and sometimes fostered violence between different ethnic and religious communities in the empire. It also asks what these outbreaks meant for the power and prestige of Britain among subject populations. Alternating between chapters of engaging narrative and chapters of careful, cross-colonial analysis, Mark Doyle uses outbreaks of communal violence in Ireland, the West Indies, and South Asia to uncover the inner workings of British imperialism: it's guiding assumptions, its mechanisms of control, its impact, and its limitations. He explains how Britons used communal violence to justify the imperial project even as that project was creating the conditions for more violence. Above all, this book demonstrates how communal violence exposed the limits of British power and, in time, helped lay the groundwork for the empire's collapse. This book shows how violence, and the British state's handling thereof, was a fundamental part of the imperial experience for colonizer and colonized alike. It offers a new perspective on the workings of empire that will be of interest to any student of imperial or world history"--
- Full contents:
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- The Angel Gabriel in the Tropics : British Guiana, 1856
- Causes : How British imperialism conjured the very violence it sought to suppress
- Trouble on the Queen's Highways : Belfast, 1872
- Interpretations : How communal riots confirmed and strengthened Britain's civilizing mission
- The Ruling Race Stumbles : Bombay, 1874
- Policing : How cultural assumptions guided the policing of communal riots
- The Cow Row : India, 1893-1894
- Consequences : How communal riots weakened the British Empire.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
- Violence -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
- Riots -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
- Communalism -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
- Social conflict -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
- Ethnic conflict -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
- Religious communities -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration -- History -- 19th century
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2016
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