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Christienna Fryar: Three Imperial Wars, 1 August 2024

Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire 
by Erik Linstrum.
Oxford, 313 pp., £26.99, April 2023, 978 0 19 757203 0
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... knowledge of this violence was successfully suppressed, both at the time and in the decades since. Erik Linstrum’s Age of Emergency makes clear, however, that suppression was both impossible and undesirable, since officials needed a certain amount of news to reach the public in order to win support. There was a careful dance between keeping the worst ...

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