Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire

When uprisings against colonial rule broke out across the world after 1945, Britain responded with overwhelming and brutal force. 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.



Age of Emergency traces facts and feelings about violence as torture, summary executions, collective punishments, and ...