Colonial Violence and Monuments in Global History

This book tackles the historical relationship between colonial violence and monuments in Africa, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, North America, and Australia. The authors ask similar questions about monuments in each location and answer them following a parallel structure that encourages comparison, highlighting common themes.

Cynthia C. Prescott is Professor of History at the University of North Dakota, USA. She is author of Pioneer Mother Monuments: Constructing Cultural Memory (2019), and Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier (2007).

Janne Lahti is a historian working at the University of Helsinki as Academy of Finland Research Fellow. He has published seven books, including Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film, with Rebecca Weaver-Hightower (2020), and The American West and the World: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives (2019).