Michael P M Finch
Biographic Data
| ID | 5747040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael P M Finch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael P M |
| FAMILY NAME | Finch |
| SIGNATURE | FINCH M P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1259-5801 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Imperial Connections
This article examines the English influence on the thinking of the French colonial soldier and administrator Marshal Hubert Lyautey (1854–1934) through his interactions with the colonial Governor Lord Frederick Lugard (1858–1945) and the Victorian Engineer Sir Charles Hartley (1825–1915). Whereas Lyautey’s affinity for the British approach to colonial governance has long been noted, earlier considerations focussed on translated texts as the means…
A Total War of the Mind
French theorists of guerre révolutionnaire conceptualized contemporary conflict in the 1950s as a particular form of total war. Located in the idea of global subversive war which provided intellectual rationalization for the army’s experiences in colonial wars after 1945, the theorists argued that the collapse in the distinction between war and peace rendered war permanent and constant, so that France’s colonial wars were a symptom of a broader c…
Fighting the Mau Mau
These two books, both rigorously researched and nuanced studies, offer contrasting perspectives on military roles during the twilight of the British Empire: where one explores the limitations of the control of violence in counter-insurgency, the other focuses on the capacity of a military institution to steady the transition to independence. Huw Bennett’s book examines the role of the British Army during the insurgency which engulfed parts of Ken…
Embers of War
This work presents a narrative of transition which, in the words of the author, aims to tell ‘the story of one power’s demise in Indochina and the arrival of another’. Since the late 1990s Fredrik Logevall has developed an expertise in the conflicts of post-Second World War Vietnam, and while his previous works have tended to focus on US involvement in the origins of America’s war, he has always been concerned to situate such involvement in its p…
A Progressive Occupation?
On the eve of the 20th century Joseph Gallieni and Hubert Lyautey claimed to have devised a new approach to the consolidation of colonial acquisitions. Their method emphasized the primacy of political action over military action, called for the replacement of military columns with a 'creeping occupation', stressed the importance of economic-organizational development in ensuring the lasting stability of newly-acquired imperial possessions, and ca…
Progressive Occupation?
A volume which offers new insights into the nature of military conflict and consolidation within European empires in the late nineteenth century.
Madagascar, 1896–1899
Chapter five focuses on Madagascar. Here Gallieni, invested with both civil and military authority at the highest level, was able to pursue his nascent colonial method on a broad canvas in order to effect the occupation and consolidation of the greater part of the island between 1896 and 1899. He was able to employ the methodical occupation on a blank canvas for the first time, once again combining hard and soft measures. Because Madagascar marke…
Colonial Consolidation, Pacification, and Military Practice, 1870–1914
Chapter one considers the wider context of colonial expansion and military practice in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as the backdrop for the emergence of the Gallieni-Lyautey method. It demonstrates that this period was characterized not only by conquest but also by consolidation. Furthermore, it argues that there existed during this period a number of ‘thinking soldiers of empire’, particularly amongst those who engaged in paci…
Imperial Connections
This article examines the English influence on the thinking of the French colonial soldier and administrator Marshal Hubert Lyautey (1854–1934) through his interactions with the colonial Governor Lord Frederick Lugard (1858–1945) and the Victorian Engineer Sir Charles Hartley (1825–1915). Whereas Lyautey’s affinity for the British approach to colonial governance has long been noted, earlier considerations focussed on translated texts as the means…
A Total War of the Mind
French theorists of guerre révolutionnaire conceptualized contemporary conflict in the 1950s as a particular form of total war. Located in the idea of global subversive war which provided intellectual rationalization for the army’s experiences in colonial wars after 1945, the theorists argued that the collapse in the distinction between war and peace rendered war permanent and constant, so that France’s colonial wars were a symptom of a broader c…
A Progressive Occupation?
On the eve of the 20th century Joseph Gallieni and Hubert Lyautey claimed to have devised a new approach to the consolidation of colonial acquisitions. Their method emphasized the primacy of political action over military action, called for the replacement of military columns with a 'creeping occupation', stressed the importance of economic-organizational development in ensuring the lasting stability of newly-acquired imperial possessions, and ca…
Progressive Occupation?
A volume which offers new insights into the nature of military conflict and consolidation within European empires in the late nineteenth century.
Madagascar, 1896–1899
Chapter five focuses on Madagascar. Here Gallieni, invested with both civil and military authority at the highest level, was able to pursue his nascent colonial method on a broad canvas in order to effect the occupation and consolidation of the greater part of the island between 1896 and 1899. He was able to employ the methodical occupation on a blank canvas for the first time, once again combining hard and soft measures. Because Madagascar marke…
Colonial Consolidation, Pacification, and Military Practice, 1870–1914
Chapter one considers the wider context of colonial expansion and military practice in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as the backdrop for the emergence of the Gallieni-Lyautey method. It demonstrates that this period was characterized not only by conquest but also by consolidation. Furthermore, it argues that there existed during this period a number of ‘thinking soldiers of empire’, particularly amongst those who engaged in paci…
Embers of War
This work presents a narrative of transition which, in the words of the author, aims to tell ‘the story of one power’s demise in Indochina and the arrival of another’. Since the late 1990s Fredrik Logevall has developed an expertise in the conflicts of post-Second World War Vietnam, and while his previous works have tended to focus on US involvement in the origins of America’s war, he has always been concerned to situate such involvement in its p…
Fighting the Mau Mau
These two books, both rigorously researched and nuanced studies, offer contrasting perspectives on military roles during the twilight of the British Empire: where one explores the limitations of the control of violence in counter-insurgency, the other focuses on the capacity of a military institution to steady the transition to independence. Huw Bennett’s book examines the role of the British Army during the insurgency which engulfed parts of Ken…
A Total War of the Mind
French theorists of guerre révolutionnaire conceptualized contemporary conflict in the 1950s as a particular form of total war. Located in the idea of global subversive war which provided intellectual rationalization for the army’s experiences in colonial wars after 1945, the theorists argued that the collapse in the distinction between war and peace rendered war permanent and constant, so that France’s colonial wars were a symptom of a broader c…
Imperial Connections
This article examines the English influence on the thinking of the French colonial soldier and administrator Marshal Hubert Lyautey (1854–1934) through his interactions with the colonial Governor Lord Frederick Lugard (1858–1945) and the Victorian Engineer Sir Charles Hartley (1825–1915). Whereas Lyautey’s affinity for the British approach to colonial governance has long been noted, earlier considerations focussed on translated texts as the means…
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