European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960 - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781804291078ISBN-10:1804291072UPC:9781804291078Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, Western Europe, ModernBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.25 x 5.50 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.7606Product ID:SCQCQ0WSBR
New edition of a trail-blazing history of imperial warfare European Empires from Conquest to Collapse is a vivid anticolonial reckoning with the history of imperial warfare. Global in scope, it deftly surveys the fighting forces and military engagements of the Great Powers, from the British in India to the scramble for Africa. Victor Kiernan lays bare the doctrines and realities of colonial fighting, dispelling official legends. Europe often boasted that coloni- alism was 'civilised', but the facts show it could be barbaric. Kiernan traces how guerrilla insurgency against colonial oppression developed into one of the most sophisticated branches of the art of war. With a foreword by Tariq Ali, author of Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781804291078ISBN-10:1804291072UPC:9781804291078Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, Western Europe, ModernBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.25 x 5.50 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.7606Product ID:SCQCQ0WSBR
Victor Kiernan (1913-2009) was Chair of Modern History at Edinburgh University. A member of the Communist Party Historians' Group with E. P. Thompson and Christopher Hill, he spent several years teaching in Lahore and translated the Urdu poets Iqbal and Faiz. His many books included Lords of Human Kind, America: The New Imperialism, and studies of Horace and Shakespeare.
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