Empire's Violent End

Thijs Brocades Zaalberg is Associate Professor at the Netherlands Defence Academy and Lecturer in Contemporary Military History at Leiden University. He is the author of Soldiers and Civil Power. Bart Luttikhuis teaches at Alberdingk Thijm School and was previously a fellow at Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) and Lecturer at Leiden University. He is a coeditor of Colonial Counterinsurgency and Mass Violence.

1. Introduction: Beyond the League Table of Barbarity: Comparing Extreme Violence during the Wars of Decolonization, by Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis

2. Not an Afterthought: Accountability for Colonial Violence in the Dutch and British Metropoles, by Huw Bennett and Peter Romijn

3. Windows onto the Microdynamics of Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence: Evidence from Late Colonial Southeast Asia and Africa Compared, by Roel Frakking and Martin Thomas

4. Cracking Down on Revolutionary Zeal and Violence: Local Dynamics and Early Colonial Responses to the Independence Struggle in Indochina and the Indonesian Archipelago, 1945–1947, by Pierre Asselin and Henk Schulte Nordholt

5. The Places, Traces, and Politics of Rape in the Indonesian and the Algerian Wars of Independence, by Stefania Scagliola, Natalya Vince, Adel Khedidja, and Galuh Ambar Sasi

6. "The Normal Order of Things": Contextualizing "Technical Violence" in the Netherlands-Indonesia War, by Azarja Harmanny and Brian McAllister Linn

7. "Bloodshed on a Rather Large Scale": Tactical Conduct and Noncombatant Casualties in Dutch, French, and British Colonial Counterinsurgency, by C.H.C Harinck

8. Comparing the Afterlives, Political Uses, and Memories of Extreme Violence during the Wars of Decolonization in France, the Netherlands, and Britain, by Raphaëlle Branche