- Publisher: Between the Lines
- ISBN: 9781897071120
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- Publication Date: Nov 2009
- Rights: Canada
- Pages: 366
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Request Exam CopyInventing Collateral Damage
Civilian Casualties, War, and Empire
Edited by Rick Halpern, Stephen Rockel
The term collateral damage, a euphemism for civilian casualty, came into usage during the Vietnam Ware and over several decades became entrenched in U.S. armed forces jargon. But long before the phrase was coined there were non-combatant victims of wars.
Emerging from a major international conference on the subject, Inventing Collateral Damage is a collection of excellent and varied studies of civilian casualty through history: in early modern Europe, 18th- and 19th-century North America, colonial and post-colonial conflicts, the world wars of the 20th century, and the present day.
The collection includes an impressive historical interpretation of the topic by Stephen Rockel and a sensitive conclusion by the noted historian Natalie Zemon Davis.
Contents
Introduction–Collateral Damage: A Comparative History (Stephen J. Rockel)
Part 1–Civilian Casualties in Early Modern Europe
“Only the Sack and the Noose for Its Citizens”: Atrocities and Civilian Casualties during the French Wars of Religion (Brian Sandberg)
Part 2–Non-Combatants in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century North America
An American War of Incarceration: Guerrilla Warfare, Occupation, and Imprisonment in the American South, 1863-65 (Scott Reynolds Nelson)
Part 3–Collateral Damage in the Partition of Africa
Non-combatants and War: The Unexplored Factor in the Conquest of the Zulu Kingdom (Jeff Guy)
Between Law and Inhumanity: Canadian Troops and British Responses to Guerrilla Warfare During the South African War (Chris Madsen)
Colonial Conquest and the Struggle for the Presence of the Colonial State in German East Africa, 1885-1903 (Michael Pesek)
Part 4–Collateral Damage and the Culture of Imperialism
Progress and Collateral Damage (Robert Gregg)
“Elegant and Dignified Military Operations in the Present Age”: The Imperfect Invisibility of Collateral Damage in Late-Nineteenth-Century Metropolitan Illustrated Magazines (Tom Gretton)
The Deliverer’s Dilemma: Japan’s Invasion of China, 1937-38 (Timothy Brook)
Criminals, Heroes, Martyrs: A Backward Caste Remembers the Colonial Past (SmitaTewari Jassai)
Part 5–Sexual Violence and War
Sexual Violence in War: Mennonite Refugees during the Second World War (Marlene Epp)
Part 6–Bombing and Civilian Casualties
The War Against Women and Children (Sven Lindqvist)
“Unworthy” Afghan Bodies: “Smarter” U.S. Weapons Kill More Innocents (Marc W.Harold)
Conclusion–(Natalie Zemon Davis)
About the Authors
Rick Halpern is the Bissell-Heyd Chair of American Studies and a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.
Stephen J. Rockel is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto.