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A NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, HISTORY TODAY AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Masterly... This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the Mind __Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize__ A searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on more than a decade of research on four continents, Caroline Elkins reveals the dark heart of Britain's Empire: a racialised, systemised doctrine of unrelenting violence, which it used to secure and maintain its interests across the globe. When Britain could no longer maintain control over that violence, it simply retreated - and sought to destroy the evidence. Legacy of Violence is a monumental achievement that explodes long-held myths and deserves the attention of anyone who seeks to understand empire's role in shaping the world today. 'Not so much a history book as a book of historical significance' BBC History Magazine 'Riveting' New Statesman 'Crucial...as unflinching as it is gripping, as carefully researched as it is urgently necessary' Jill Lepore, author of These Truths

Postcolonial states and metropolitan societies still grapple today with the divisive and difficult legacies unleashed by settler colonialism.Whether they were settled for trade or geopolitical reasons, these settler communities had in common their shaping of landholding, laws, and race relations in colonies throughout the world. By looking at the detail of settlements in the twentieth century--from European colonial projects in Africa and expansionist efforts by the Japanese in Korea and Manchuria, to the Germans in Poland and the historical trajectories of Israel/Palestine and South Africa--a

1. Reparations for slavery : a productive strategy? / Makau Mutua -- 2. Slavery, universities, and reparations / Adam Rothman -- 3. "Free citizens of this nation" : Cherokee slavery, descendants of freedpeople, and possibilities for repair / Tiya Miles -- 4. The Jamaican case for reparations against the British government for slavery and colonization / Bert S. Samuels -- 5. The university and slavery : reflections upon the history and future of the University of the West Indies / Sir Hilary Beckles -- 6. French justice and the claims for reparations by slave descendants in Guadeloupe / Mireille Fanon Mendes France -- 7. History on trial : Mau Mau reparations and the High Court of Justice / Caroline Elkins -- 8. A critical assessment of Colombia's reparations policies in the context of the peace process / Kathryn Sikkink, Douglas A. Johnson, Phuong Pham, and Patrick Vinck -- 9. Justice beyond the final verdict : the role of court-ordered reparations in the struggle for indigenous peoples' human rights in GuatemalaI / Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj and Aileen Ford -- 10. Colonial History at court : legal decisions and their social dilemmas / Nicole L. Immler -- 11. Unhealed wounds of World War I : Armenia, Kurdistan, and Palestine / Rashid Khalidi -- 12. Nakba denial : Israeli resistance to Palestinian refugee reparations / Michael R. Fischbach -- 13. Repairing colonial symmetry : Algerian archive restitution as reparation for crimes of colonialism? / Susan Slyomovics -- 14. The Romani genocide during the Holocaust : resistance and restitution / Ian Hancock -- 15. The Roma case for reparations / Margareta Matache and Jacqueline Bhabha -- 16. What justice for starvation crimes? / Alex de Waal and Bridget Conley -- 17. Stopping the crimes while repairing the victims : personal reflections of a global prosecutor / Luis Moreno Ocampo with the collaboration of Joanna Frivet.

Is global violence on the decline? Scholars argue that Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker's proposal that violence has declined dramatically over time is flawed. This highly-publicized argument that human violence across the world has been dramatically abating continues to influence discourse among academics and the general public alike. In this provocative volume, a cast of eminent historians interrogate Pinker's thesis by exposing the realities of violence throughout human history. In doing so, they reveal the history of human violence to be richer, more thought-provoking, and considerably more complicated than Pinker claims. From the introduction: Not all of the scholars included in this volume agree on everything, but the overall verdict is that Pinker's thesis, for all the stimulus it may have given to discussions around violence, is seriously, if not fatally, flawed.The problems that come up time and again are the failure to genuinely engage with historical methodologies; the unquestioning use of dubious sources; the tendency to exaggerate the violence of the past in order to contrast it with the supposed peacefulness of the modern era; the creation of a number of straw men, which Pinker then goes on to debunk; and its extraordinarily Western-centric, not to say Whiggish, view of the world. Complex historical questions, as the essays in this volume clearly demonstrate, cannot be answered with any degree of certainty, and certainly not in a simplistic way. Our goal here is not to offer a final, definitive verdict on Pinker's work; it is, rather, to initiate an ongoing process of assessment that in the future will incorporate as much of the history profession as possible

In this sweeping international perspective on reparations, Time for Reparations makes the case that past state injustice—be it slavery or colonization, forced sterilization or widespread atrocities—has enduring consequences that generate ongoing harm, which needs to be addressed as a matter of justice and equity.Time for Reparations provides a wealth of detailed and diverse examples of state injustice, from enslavement of African Americans in the United States and Roma in Romania, to colonial exploitation and brutality in Guatemala, Algeria, Indonesia, Jamaica, and Guadeloupe. From many vantage points, contributing authors discuss different reparative strategies and the impact they would have on the lives of survivor or descent communities.One of the strengths of this book is its interdisciplinary perspective—contributors are historians, anthropologists, human rights lawyers, sociologists, and political scientists. Many of the authors are both scholars and advocates, actively involved in one capacity or another in the struggles for reparations they describe. The book therefore has a broad and inclusive scope, aided by an accessible and cogent writing style. It appeals to scholars, students, advocates and others concerned about addressing some of the most profound and enduring injustices of our time