In the aftermath of World War I, the British Empire was hit by two different crises on opposite sides of the world the Jallianwala Bagh, or Amritsar, Massacre in the Punjab and the Croke Park Massacre, the first Bloody Sunday, in Ireland. This book provides a study at the cutting edge of British imperial historiography, concentrating on British imperial violence and the concept of collective punishment. This was the crisis of empire following the political and ideological watershed of World War I. The British Empire had reached its greatest geographical extent, appeared powerful, liberal,...
In the aftermath of World War I, the British Empire was hit by two different crises on opposite sides of the world the Jallianwala Bagh, or Amritsar, ...
