1st Edition

Occupation The Policies and Practices of Military Conquerors

By Eric Carlton Copyright 1992

    In this exploration of the nature of occupation, Eric Carlton concentrates on the complex relationship between military authority and civilian population and explores the methods used by dominant powers ot maintain their authority. Drawing from a wide range of case studies, including examinations of British colonial interests in India and the Nazi atrocities of the Second World War, Dr Carlton assesses the nature of social control and the effect of ideology on the exercising of power, and considers the moral aspects of military repression.

    Foreword, Introduction: Ideology and control, 1 Analyses of power, 2 Assimilation: The expedient policies of the Roman Empire, 3 Re-education: British colonialism in India, 4 Culturation: The neo-colonialism of the United States in Latin America, 5 Reconstitutionalization: The Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great, 6 Malintegration: Japan and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, 7 Arbitrary repression: Mussolini and the Italian African Empire, 8 Exploitation: The Spanish in Peru, 9 Subjugation: Europeans and the indigenes of North America, 10 Depredation: The Assyrians and population transfer, 11 Selective control: Nazi non-Eastern occupation policies, 12 Extermination: Nazi policies and practices in the ‘East’, 13 Excursus: The Holocaust and the SS intelligentsia, 14 Afterthoughts on models and morality, Postscript: The Iraqi occupation of Kuwait, Bibliography, Index

    Biography

    Eric Carlton