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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Searle, Geoffrey. "'National Efficiency' and the 'Lessons' of the War." In The Impact of the South African War, edited by David Omissi and Andrew Thompson, 194-211. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.
Secunda, Eugene, and Terence P. Moran. Selling War to America: From the Spanish American War to the Global War on Terror. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007.
Silbey, David. A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899–1902. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007.
Soloway, Richard A. Demography and Degeneration: Eugenics and the Declining Birthrate in Twentieth Century Britain. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
Soneira, Teresa Fernández. Mujeres de la Patria: Contribución de la Mujer a la Independencia de Cuba. Miami, Florida: Ediciones Universal, 2014.
Spiers, Edward M. Letters from Kimberley: Eyewitness Accounts from the South African War. Barnsley, United Kingdom: Frontline Books, 2013.
Stoler, Ann Laura. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Summers, Anne. Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses, 1854-1914. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988.
Taithe, Bertrand. The Killer Trail: A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Taylor, Philip. Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda from the Ancient World to the Present Day. 3rd ed. Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, 2003.
Thomas, Martin. The French Colonial Mind. Lincoln: Univeristy of Nebraska Press, 2011.
Thomas, Evan. The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2010.
Tosh, John. "What Should Historians Do with Masculinity? Reflections on Nineteenth-Century Britain." In Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays on Gender, Family and Empire, edited by John Tosh, 179-202. Harlow: Routledge, 2004.
Trumbull, George R. An Empire of Facts: Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Vandervort, Bruce. "War and Imperial Expansion." In The Cambridge History of War, edited by Roger Chickering, Dennis Showalter and Hans van de Ven, 69-93. Vol. 4: War and the Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Varnava, Andrekos. Imperial Expectations and Realities: El Dorados, Utopias and Dystopias. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015.
Vuic, Kara D. The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military In Routeledge Histories. New York; London: Routledge, 2018.
Walker, D. J. Spanish Women and the Colonial Wars of the 1890s. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
Warren, Allen. "Popular Manliness: Baden Powell, Scouting and the Development of Manly Character." In Manliness and Morality: Middle-Class Masculinity in Britain and America, 1800-1940, edited by James Mangan and James Walvin, 199-219. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.
Wawro, Geoffrey. "War, Technology, and Industrial Change, 1850–1914." In The Cambridge History of War, edited by Roger Chickering, Dennis Showalter and Hans van de Ven, 45-68. Vol. 4: War and the Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Wawro, Geoffrey. Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792-1914. London: Routledge, 2005.
Welch, David, and Jo Fox. Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Wildenthal, Lora. German Women for Empire, 1884-1945. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.
Wilkerson, Marcus M. Public Opinion and the Spanish-American War: A Study in War Propaganda. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1932.
Willbanks, James H. America's Heroes: Medal of Honor Recipients from the Civil War to Afghanistan. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
Woollacott, Angela. Gender and Empire (Monograph). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Zimmerer, Jürgen, and Joachim Zeller. Genocide in German South-West Africa: The Colonial War (1904–1908) in Namibia and Its Aftermath. Monmouth, Wales: Merlin Press, 2008.

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