Colonial Counterinsurgency and Mass Violence: The Dutch Empire in Indonesia

Book Overview

Whether out of historical interest, romantic identification with the colonized or as models for contemporary counter-insurgency experts, the mass violence of insurgency and counter-insurgency in the post-war decolonization of the European empires has long exerted an intense fascination. In the main, the dramas in French Algeria and British Kenya in the 1950s have dominated the scene, overshadowing the equally violent events that unfolded in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032920955
• ISBN13: 9781032920955
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 370 Pages