O?ers a valuable tour dhorizon of emerging scholarship ... [ Includes] informative and thought-provoking case studies. * Journal of Contemporary History * In this collection of essays, Thomas and Curless have brought together some of the best historians of 20th century imperialism to discuss the relationship between warfare and the end of empire. The result is a provocative and enlightening book which offers insights into some of the most important topics in the field including imperial policing, modernisation, gender and the colonial legacy. It marks a major advance in our understanding of the wars of European decolonisation. * Spencer Mawby, University of Nottingham, UK * This is a unique volume spanning an impressive range of insurgency situations. It marks a forceful intervention in recent debates regarding decolonization era conflicts, offering fascinating case studies and fresh historiographical and intellectual perspectives. * Ashley Jackson, King's College London, UK * Martin Thomas and Gareth Curless have produced a uniformly outstanding anthology that will long remain the last word on comparative colonialism between 1920 and 1970. The book demolishes the claims of both imperial apologists, and rosy post-colonial historiography to point convincingly to the affects of colonial violence, hypocrisy, and militarized policing on both the post-colonial state, and the former colonial metropole. This book makes depressing, but illuminating reading for those wishing to understand, for example, why police departments in Europe and America storm immigrant and minority neighborhoods with body armor, automatic weapons, and armored vehicles in the new century. * Michael Provence, University of California, San Diego, USA *
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