ABSTRACT
Ann Laura Stoler's 'concept work' provides us with the tools to think through the 'crisis' of integration that has defined both British and French postcolonial governance, with their claims to be working from contrasting political cultures, while situated, at the same time, within an overall post-war commitment to protecting minorities. Violence and its aftermath on both the victims and the perpetrators continued in post-war Europe, where 'for some of these people killing became an addiction'. Keith Lowe's retelling of post-war Europe through the question of vengeance embodies the precise failure of nations and international organizations to work through the conflicts, hatred and crimes of the old era, upon which our order was built. Post-war migration patterns, and the communities to which strategies of governance are directed, are inextricable from what Sven Beckert terms 'war capitalism'. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
