{"id":56169,"date":"2026-11-05T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=56169"},"modified":"2026-11-02T17:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T16:30:57","slug":"european-empires-from-conquest-to-collapse-1815-1960-victor-g-kiernan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=56169","title":{"rendered":"\u201eEuropean Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960\u201c \u2013 Victor G. Kiernan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New edition of a trail-blazing history of imperial warfare <em>European Empires from Conquest to Collapse<\/em> is a vivid anticolonial reckoning with the history of imperial warfare. Global in scope, it deftly surveys the fighting forces and military engagements of the Great Powers, from the British in India to the scramble for Africa. Victor Kiernan lays bare the doctrines and realities of colonial fighting, dispelling official legends. Europe often boasted that colonialism was \u2018civilised\u2019, but the facts show it could be barbaric. Kiernan traces how guerrilla insurgency against colonial oppression developed into one of the most sophisticated branches of the art of war. With a foreword by Tariq Ali, author of <em>Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Victor Kiernan<\/strong>&nbsp;(1913\u20132009) was Chair of Modern History at Edinburgh University. A member of the Communist Party Historians\u2019 Group with E. P. Thompson and Christopher Hill, he spent several years teaching in Lahore and translated the Urdu poets Iqbal and Faiz. His many books included&nbsp;<em>Lords of Human Kind<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>America: The New Imperialism<\/em>, and studies of Horace and Shakespeare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reviews&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201eA much-needed survey of European colonial campaigns, brilliant in the choice of examples from an extraordinarily wide reading.\u201c (Eric Hobsbawm<em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;London Review of Books<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201eOne of Britain&#8217;s foremost historians working in the Marxist tradition. His time in India, which remained closer to heart than any other country, significantly influenced how he came to view European imperialism.\u201c&nbsp;(<em>The Times<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published in April 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ISBN: 9781804291078<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">304p<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Op\u0161irnije: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/products\/2762-european-empires-from-conquest-to-collapse-1815-1960\">https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/products\/2762-european-empires-from-conquest-to-collapse-1815-1960<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":56170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":"\"New edition of a trail-blazing history of imperial warfare European Empires from Conquest to Collapse is a vivid anticolonial reckoning with the history of imperial warfare.\""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/European-Empires-1815-1960.webp?fit=434%2C650&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55137,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55137","url_meta":{"origin":56169,"position":0},"title":"\u201eA Byzantine Century: Political, Colonial, and National Uses of Neo-Byzantine Architecture, 1820s\u20131920s\u201c, ur. 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