Table of Contents

1. Introduction Stephen M. Miller; 2. The Indian Rebellion, 1857–1858 Douglas M. Peers; 3. Punitive expeditions in China, 1857–1860 Bruce Collins; 4. The expedition to Abyssinia, 1867–1868 Christopher Brice; 5. The New Zealand Wars, 1845–1872 John Crawford; 6. The Third Anglo-Asante War, 1873–1874 Ryan Patterson; 7. The Second Afghan War, 1878–1880 Rodney Atwood; 8. The Anglo-Zulu War, 1879 Ian Knight; 9. The First Anglo-Boer War, 1880–1881 John Laband; 10. Egypt and the Sudan, 1881–1885 Rob Johnson; 11. The Third Anglo-Burmese War and the pacification of Burma, 1885–1895 Ian F. W. Beckett; 12. The Tirah Campaign, 1897–1898 Sameetah Agha; 13. Reconquest of the Sudan, 1896–1898 Edward M. Spiers; 14. The South African War, 1899–1902 Stephen M. Miller; 15. Conclusion Stephen M. Miller.

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Offers a revised and updated history of thirteen of the most significant British conflicts during the Victorian period.

About the Author

Stephen M. Miller is Professor of History at the University of Maine. He is the author of George White and the Victorian Army in India and Africa (2020), Volunteers on the Veld (2007), and Lord Methuen and the British Army (1999), and editor of Soldiers and Settlers in Africa, 1850-1918 (2009).

Reviews

'Stephen M. Miller has provided a pathbreaking collection of case-studies, each written by an internationally recognised expert, each showing how and why a clear understanding of its wars and their conduct has become indispensable to the history of the British Empire at its height.' Stephen Badsey, author of Doctrine and Reform in the British Cavalry

'Stephen M. Miller's excellent new edited volume confirms the fundamental truth that the British imperial experience during the Victorian era was defined as much by the obstruction and resistance of those subject to its impositions than by simplistic tropes of territorial extension or brutal hegemony.' Christian Tripodi, author of Edge of Empire

'Framed by the empire-defining conflicts of the 1857 Indian rebellion and the South African War, Queen Victoria's Wars demonstrates how so-called 'small wars' shaped and scarred the British empire in the nineteenth century. Ranging from wars of conquest and punitive expeditions to guerrilla and 'pacification' campaigns, the interconnections of empire – whether in the form of troops and human capital, geopolitics or intelligence flows – are drawn out in great detail.' Erica Wald, author of Vice in the Barracks

'This book is definitely a worthwhile read for anyone interested in the historical context of asymmetrical warfare and great-power involvement abroad … Recommended.' A. M. Wainwright, Choice Magazine