1st Edition
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the Nineteenth Century A Global History
1. Introduction: Why a nineteenth-century study?
Mark Lawrence
Part 1: Insurgencies
2. The Peninsular War guerrilla and its antecedents: humiliation forgotten, disaster prefigured: the guerra fantástica of 1762
Charles Esdaile
3. Reluctant guerrillas in early nineteenth century China: the White Lotus insurgents and their suppressors
Yingcong Dai
4. Regular and irregular forces in conflict: nineteenth century insurgencies in South America
Alejandro M. Rabinovich and Natalia Sobrevilla Perea
5. The First Carlist War (1833–40), insurgency, Ramón Cabrera, and expeditionary warfare
Mark Lawrence
6. Holmes’ front: constructing a new face of battle for America’s Civil War
Susan-Mary Grant
7. Memory, magic and militias: Cora Indian participation in Mexico’s wars, from the reforma to the revolution (1854-1920)
Nathaniel Morris
8. Guerrilla warfare in Katanga: the Sanga rebellion of the 1890s and its suppression
Giacomo Macola and Jack Hogan
Part 2: Counterinsurgencies
9. Ireland: rebellion and counter-insurgency, 1848–1867
Timothy Bowman
10. ‘The extraordinary successes which the Russians have achieved’ - the Conquest of Central Asia in Callwell’s Small Wars
Alexander Morrison
11. General Zuo’s counter-insurgency doctrine
Kenneth M. Swope
12. A predisposition to brutality? German practices against civilians and francs-tireurs during the Franco-Prussian war 1870–1871 and their relevance for the German ‘military Sonderweg’ debate
Bastian Matteo Scianna
13. The campaign of the lost footsteps: the pacification of Burma, 1885-95
Ian F. W. Beckett
14. The Force Publique’s campaigns in the Congo-Arab War, 1892-1894
Mario Draper
15. Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of war in modern Africa
Richard Reid
16. Conclusion
Mark Lawrence
Biography
Mark Lawrence is Lecturer in Modern Hispanic and Military History at the University of Kent, UK, and Director of Military History at the University of Kent (2019–2020). He is author of the award-winning Spanish Civil Wars (2017), Nineteenth-Century Spain (2019) and Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Policing in Centre-West Mexico, 1926–1929: Fighting Cristeros (2020).
