If only there was a historical precedent for the punitive logic of this kind of warfare...🤔 On a completely unrelated note, have you seen this excellent new book?
Mark Condos
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Historian of empire, colonial violence, race, and law. Currently working on revenge and honour.
‘Empire with a Vengeance’ by @mark-condos.bsky.social : ‘A genuinely pathbreaking work of comparative & trans-imperial history that should be compulsory reading for anyone seriously interested in historical questions of violence and empire.’ @kimatiwagner.bsky.social Sample 👉 tinyurl.com/5n93zbsa
Empire with a Vengeance | Hurst Publishers
An absorbing new history of European colonialism, showing how ideas of retribution and revenge were used to justify violent conquest and rule.
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Out Now ⬇️ 'A powerful contribution to the history of colonial violence and warfare.' @philipwblood.bsky.social 'Empire with a Vengeance’ by Mark Condos is an absorbing new history of European colonialism from 1815–1914. Get 20% off w/code CONDOS20 ➡️ tinyurl.com/4f6rwus3
So Gen. Doug MacArthur's dad helped cover-up the biggest atrocity of the Phil-Am War...even though it was legal, under international law at the time? See the JAH's latest issue! @oah.org @smh-historians.bsky.social @asilorg.bsky.social @aslegalhist.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jah/article-...
The Empire of Military Necessity: General Orders No. 100, Atrocity, and the Law of Occupation between the Civil and Philippine Wars
Lt. Edgar F. Koehler, U.S. Army provost marshal for the Province of Tarlac in the central Luzon region of the Philippines in early 1900, knew that a Civil
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🚨Join the Centre for the History of War, Media and Society tomorrow to hear Professor Beth Bailey on ‘The War within the War: The US Army and the ‘Problem of Race' in the Vietnam Era’ 🗓️19 May 2026 ⏱️17:00 📍Templeman Lecture Theatre (University of Kent) & online via the QR code below
Book launch for new textbook on "Concepts in IR" - tomorrow 2 April at King's College. I'll be speaking about my chapter on the concept of Colonialism, and its evolution in theory & practice. Look forward to sharing a panel with great colleagues & co-contributors www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Book Launch: Concepts in International Relations - A New Introduction
This event explores the role of concepts as windows into world politics.
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After years of calls, events, and track changes, Brian Drohan and I are excited to announce the publication of our edited volume, Military Humanitarianism: Aid Operations and Armed Forces, with @cornellupress.bsky.social in July 2026! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Join us for another exciting paper TONIGHT 5.30pm online or in person in IHR Seminar Room N304: Jessi Gilchrist (KCL) will be discussing her doctoral research into the history of border-making in the interwar Middle East. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Enforcing Lines in the Sand: British Egypt, Italian Libya, and the quest to build desert boundaries during the interwar years
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Hi folks, after some very hard graft, I've a UK publication date - 2 July 2026 - for Book I of my Second World War Trilogy. COLLAPSE will publish with @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social. The cover, which I love, is below!! Details and pre-order here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/316660...
Are you interested in how revenge and honour shaped British and French colonial warfare? Then check out my new book, Empire with a Vengeance, published with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social. Available now for pre-order from Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/campaign/feb... @waterstones.bsky.social
Join us tmrw 5.30pm-7pm at the IHR (room N304) or online (link below) for what promises to be a wonderful event! Dr Leslie James will be discussing her research on 'The Atlantic Charter Revisited: West African & Caribbean newspapers & the seeds of decolonisation'. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Atlantic Charter Revised: West African and Caribbean newspapers and the seeds of decolonisation
This session examines how the Atlantic Charter and wartime “rights talk” fueled anti-colonial claims, showing how West African and Caribbean presses shaped decolonisation.
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Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2
The Colonial Way of War
Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War
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I have been looking forward to @tommenger.bsky.social's book on colonial warfare for some time now, and it's amazing to see that it's finally out. A must for anyone who's interested in the study of violence in a transimperial comparative framework...
Tom Menger@tommenger.bsky.social · 11mo agoPublication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2
It's now been confirmed: my book The Colonial Way of War will finally come out in early August! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
The Colonial Way of War
Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War
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The Work of Empire: book release today, Amherst Books, 7pm! Can't be there? Take advantage of UNC Press's 30% discount, thanks to its American History sale! uncpress.org/book/9781469...
I will be speaking on "Historicising Racial Militarism" at the Institute of historical Research @ihr.bsky.social on Tues 4th February, 5.30-7pm. The event is in-person and online. All welcome, but registration required - details in the link👇 www.history.ac.uk/events/histo...
Historicising Racial Militarism
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"When people think of themselves as the 'good guys' regardless of the violence they inflict, there is ultimately no atrocity they are not willing to justify." From my book 'MASSACRE IN THE CLOUDS': www.amazon.com/Massacre-Clo...
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