Tom Menger

Historian of imperial and trans-imperial history affiliated with the Munich Center for Global History, author of The Colonial Way of War (Cambridge UP, 2025), interviewed about colonial violence and warfare.

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Jan 30, 2026 • 1h 2min

Tom Menger, "The Colonial Way of War: Violence and Colonial Warfare in the British, German and Dutch Empires, c. 1890-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Tom Menger, a historian of imperial and trans-imperial history at the Munich Center for Global History, explores how British, German and Dutch colonial wars shared a common 'Colonial Way of War'. He traces trans-imperial transfers via soldiers, manuals and memoirs. The conversation covers racialization, punitive tactics like scorched earth and mass killing, mobility of military actors, and comparative cases including Herero and Aceh.

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