Monographie

British ways of counter-insurgency : a historical perspective / edited by Matthew Hughes

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • British ways of counter-insurgency : a historical perspective / edited by Matthew Hughes
Auteur(s)
Publication
  • London : Routledge, 2013
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (XIII-244 p.) ; 24 cm
ISBN
  • 978-0-4158-2577-1
  • 0-415-82577-6
  • 978-1-0329-2503-5
  • 1-03-292503-5
EAN
  • 9781032925035 br.
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 355.023
Note(s)
  • Textes issus de communications, présentés lors d'une conférence internationale, tenue à Londres en septembre 2012
Note sur l'édition et l'histoire bibliographique
  • Edition brochée parue en 2024
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. en fin de chapitres. Notes bibliogr. Index
Note sur le contenu
  • 1. Introduction : British ways of counter-insurgency / Matthew Hughes 2. 'Savage warfare' : C.E. Callwell, the roots of counter-insurgency, and the nineteenth century context / Daniel Whittingham 3. An example to be followed or a warning to be avoided ? The British, Boers, and guerrila warfare, 1900-1902 / Keith Surridge 4. Suppressing insurgencies in comparison : the Germans in the Ukraine, 1918, and the British in Mesopotamia, 1920 / Peter Lieb 5. The war on terror that failed : British counter-insurgency in Palestine 1945-1947 and the 'Farran Affair' / David Cesarani 6. Everyone lived in fear : Malaya and the British way of counter-insurgency / Karl Hack 7. British abuse and torture in Kenya's counter-insurgency, 1952-1960 / David M. Anderson 8. The British counter-insurgency in Cyprus / Simon Robbins 9. Nasty not nice : British counter-insurgency doctrine and practice, 1945-1967 / David French 10. The minimum force debate : contemporary sensibilities meet imperial practice / Thomas R. Mockaitis 11. British counter-insurgency : a historiographical reflection / Ian F.W. Beckett 12. Historians, a legacy of suspicion and the 'migrated archives' / Anthony Badger
Résumé ou extrait
  • This edited collection examines the British Armys history of counter-insurgency. It brings together and consolidates new scholarship on the counter-insurgency associated with the end of empire, stretching from the nineteenth century to the final collapse of the British Empire in the 1960s.This book was published as a special issue of.
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