Secondary Literature on the Colonial Wars of the long 19th Century

This collection includes secondary literature on the themes covered by the Oxford Handbook on Gender, War and the Western World since 1600. We have also added selected secondary literature on regions and themes that the handbook does not cover. The majority of the texts are in English with some texts in French, German or Russian.

The most important wars for this period include:

  • Imperial Conquest of Africa (1880–1914)
  • Spanish–American War (1898)
  • Boer/South African War (1899–1902)
  • Philippine-American War (1899–1902)

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Aldrich, Robert. Colonialism and Homosexuality. London: Routledge, 2003.
Aldrich, Robert, and Kirsten McKenzie. The Routledge History of Western Empires. London: Routledge, 2014.
Alvah, Donna. "U.S. Military Wives in the Philippines, from the Philippine War to World War II." In A Companion to Women's Military History, edited by Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining, 431-452. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012.
Astor, Gerald. The Right to Fight: A History of African Americans in the Military. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1998.
Baranowski, Shelley. Nazi Empire: German Colonialism and Imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2004.
Belkin, Aaron. Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign Facade of American Empire, 1898-2001. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.
Bemporad, Elissa, and Joyce W. Warren. Women and Genocide: Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2018.
Benjamin, Thomas. Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2007.
Benton, Elbert J. International Law and Diplomacy of the Spanish-American War. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1908.
Berry, Marie E. War, Women, and Power: From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Black, Jeremy. Warfare in the Western World, 1882–1975. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.
Bley, Helmut. South-West Africa under German Rule, 1894-1914. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1971.
Blom, Ida, Karen Hagemann, and Catherine Hall. Gendered Nations: Nationalisms and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Century. New York: Berg, 2000.
Bloxham, Donald, and A. Dirk Moses. The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Bouvier, Virginia M. Whose America?: The War of 1898 and the Battles to Define the Nation. Westport, CT: Praeger , 2001.
Bowen, Warren H., and José E. Alvarez. A Military History of Modern Spain: From the Napoleonic Era to the International War on Terror. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007.
Bradford, Helen. "Regendering Afrikanerdom: The 1899–1902 Anglo-Boer War." In Gendered Nations: Nationalisms and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Ida Blom, Karen Hagemann and Catherine Hall, 207-228. Oxford: Berg, 2000.
Brewer, Susan A. Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Brits, Elsabé. Emily Hobhouse: Feminist, Pacifist, Traitor?. London: Robinson, 2018.
Bunting, Annie, Benjamin N. Lawrance, and Richard L. Roberts. Marriage by Force? Contestation Over Consent and Coercion in Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2016.
Burbank, Jane, and Frederick Cooper. Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Byers, Andrew. The Sexual Economy of War: Discipline and Desire in the U.S. Army. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019.
Cabanes, Bruno. The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918-1924. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Callwell, Charles E. Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice. London: Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Harrison and Sons, 1896.
Ciarlo, David. Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Clayton, Anthony. France, Soldiers, and Africa. London: Brassey's Defence Publishers, 1988.
Clayton, Anthony, and Donald C. Savage. Government and Labour in Kenya, 1895–1963. London: Cass, 1974.
Conklin, Alice. A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997.
Conklin, Alice L., and Ian Christopher Fletcher. European Imperialism, 1830-1930: Climax and Contradiction. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Connelly, Mark, and David Welch. War and the Media: Reportage and Propaganda, 1900-2003. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005.
Conrad, Sebastian. German Colonialism: A Short History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Cosmas, Graham A. An Army for Empire: The United States Army in the Spanish-American War. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1971.
Crook, Tom, Rebecca Gill, and Bertrand Traithe. Evil, Barbarism and Empire: Britain and Abroad, c. 1830-2000. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Davis, Shelby Cullom. Reservoirs of Men: A History of the Black Troops of French West Africa. Geneva: Librairie Kundig, 1934.
Dewar, Katherine Elizabeth. Called to Serve: Georgina Pope, Canadian Military Nursing Heroine. Charlottetown: Island Studies Press , 2018.
Drinnon, Richard. Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-hating and Empire-building. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980.
Driver, Felix. Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

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