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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Langbehn, Volker, and Mohammad Salama. German Colonialism: Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
Lemarchand, René. Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial, and Memory. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Levine, Philippa. Gender and Empire (Anthology). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Linderman, Gerald F. The Mirror of War: American Society and the Spanish-American War. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1974.
Lindsay, Lisa A., and John Wood Sweet. Biography and the Black Atlantic. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.
Linn, Brian McAllister. Guardians of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Pacific, 1902-1940. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Linn, Brian McAllister. The U.S. Army and Counterinsurgency in the Philippine War, 1899-1902. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
Louis, William Roger. Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez and Decolonization. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006.
Lucero, Bonnie. Revolutionary Masculinity and Racial Inequality: Gendering War and Politics in Cuba. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
Ludwig, Ulrike, Markus Pöhlmann, and John Zimmermann. Ehre und Pflichterfüllung als Codes militärischer Tugenden. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2014.
MacDonald, Robert. The Language of Empire: Myths and Metaphors of Popular Imperialism, 1880-1918. Manchester ; New York: Manchester University Press, 1994.
MacKenzie, John M. "The Imperial Pioneer and Hunter and the British Masculine Stereotype in Late Victorian and Edwardian Times." In Manliness and Morality: Middle-Class Masculinity in Britain and America, 1800-1940, edited by James Mangan and James Walvin, 176-198. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.
Mangan, James Anthony. 'Manufactured' Masculinity: Making Imperial Manliness, Morality and Militarism. Abingdon, UK; New York: Routledge, 2012.
McLaughlin, Redmond. The Royal Army Medical Corps. London: L. Cooper, 1972.
Mills, H. Sinclair. The Vivandiere: History, Tradition, Uniform and Service. Collinswood, NJ: C. W. Historicals, 1988.
Mushikiwabo, Louise, and Jack Kramer. Rwanda Means the Universe: A Native's Memoir of Blood and Bloodlines. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007.
Nalty, Bernard C. Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military. New York: Free Press, 1986.
Naranch, Bradley, and Geoff Eley. German Colonialism in a Global Age. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014.
Nasson, Bill, and Albert Grundlingh. The War at Home: Women and Families in the Anglo-Boer War. Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2013.
Payne, Stanley G. Politics and the Military in Modern Spain. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1967.
Peck, John. War, the Army and Victorian Literature. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Piggott, Juliet. Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. London: Cooper, 1975.
Pollard, Lisa. Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing and Liberating Egypt, 1805-1923. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005.
Pugsley, Christopher. The ANZAC Experience: New Zealand, Australia and Empire in the First World War. Auckland : Reed Publishing, 2004.
Quesada, Alejandro M. de, and Chris Dale. Imperial German Colonial and Overseas Troops 1885-1918. Long Island City, NY: Osprey, 2013.
Rastegar, Kamran. Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Riley, Glenda. Taking Land, Breaking Land: Women Colonizing the American West and Kenya, 1840-1940. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2003.
Rogers, Anna. While You're Away: New Zealand Nurses at War 1899-1948. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2003.
Russell, Lynette. Colonial Frontiers: Indigenous-European Encounters in Settler Societies. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001.
Sarnecky, Mary T. A History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Schaller, Dominik J. "From Conquest to Genocide: Colonial Rule in German Southwest Africa and German East Africa." In Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, edited by Anthony Dirk Moses, 296-324. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008.
Scott, Rebecca J. Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.

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