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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Driver, Felix. Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
Rose, Sonya O. "Fit to Fight but not to Vote? Masculinity and Citizenship in Britain, 1832–1918." In Representing Masculinity: Male Citizenship in Modern Western Culture, edited by Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann and Anna Clark, 131-150. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Edy, Carolyn M. The Woman War Correspondent, the U.S Military, and the Press, 1846-1947. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017.
Einolf, Christopher J. America in the Philippines, 1899-1902: The First Torture Scandal. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena. The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival. Sydney, Australia: Syracuse University Press, 2014.
Foner, Philip S. The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Birth of American Imperialism, 1895-1902. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972.
Forth, Aidan. Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017.
Freidel, Frank. The Splendid Little War. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1958.
Fremont-Barnes, Gregory. The Boer War, 1899–1902. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2003.
Gershovich, Moshe. French Military Rule in Morocco: Colonialism and its Consequences. London: F. Cass, 2000.
Gerstle, Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Gerwarth, Robert, and Erez Manela. Empires at War: 1911–1923. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Gooch, John. The Boer War: Direction, Experience, and Image. London: Frank Cass, 2000.
Goodman, R. D. Our War Nurses: The History of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps 1902-1988. Bowen Hills, QLD.: Boolarong Publications, 1988.
Groot, Gerard J. de, and Corinna M. Peniston-Bird. A Soldier and a Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military. Harlow: Pearson Education, 2000.
Hacker, Barton C., and Margaret Vining. A Companion to Women's Military History. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
Heuman, Gad, and Trevor Burnard. The Routledge History of Slavery. London: Routledge, 2011.
Hobsbawm, Eric J. The Age of Empire: 1875-1914. New York: Pantheon Books, 1987.
Hobsbawm, Eric, and Terrence Ranger. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Hoffman, Philip T. Why Did Europe Conquer the World?. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Hughes, Matthew. British Ways of Counter-Insurgency: A Historical Perspective. London: Routledge, 2013.
Hull, Isabel V. Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013.
Jones, Karen R., Giacomo Macola, and David Welch. A Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013.
Jones, Adam. Genocide, War Crimes and the West: History and Complicity. London: Zed Books, 2004.
Jones, Adam. Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction. London: Routledge, 2006.
Kennedy, Dane Keith. Islands of White: Settler Society and Culture in Kenya and Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1939. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987.
Kramer, Paul A. The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Krebs, Paula M. Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire: Public Discourse and the Boer War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Krüger, Christine, and Sonja Levsen. War Volunteering in Modern Times: From the French Revolution to the Second World War. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Kundrus, Birthe. Phantasiereiche: Zur Kulturgeschichte des deutschen Kolonialismus. Frankfurt/M: Campus, 2003.
Laband, John. Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Africa: From Slavery Days to Rwandan Genocide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.
Langbehn, Volker Max. German Colonialism, Visual Culture, and Modern Memory In Routledge studies in modern European history ;; 13; Variation: Routledge studies in modern European history ;; 13. New York: Routledge, 2010.

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