Karl Hack
British historian and academic
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Karl Anthony Hack is a British historian and academic, who specialises in the history of Southeast Asia, the British Empire, and of insurgency and counter-insurgency. Drawing on interviews with insurgents, his work has demonstrated the role of high-level coercion in winning post-war counter-insurgencies, and explored extreme violence and violence limitation. He has also carried out a wide range of public work, ranging across heritage, memory, the media and the courts. He is a professor of history at The Open University where he has also been head of history, and head of the School of History, Religious Studies, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology . Prior to joining The Open University in 2006, he taught at the National Institute of Education, at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, from 1995 to 2006.
Karl Hack 's Published Works
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- The Malayan Emergency as Counter-Insurgency Paradigm (2009) (120)
- Everyone lived in fear: Malaya and the British way of counter-insurgency (2012) (56)
- British intelligence and counter‐insurgency in the era of decolonisation: The example of Malaya (1999) (51)
- “Iron Claws on Malaya”: The Historiography of the Malayan Emergency (1999) (50)
- Defence and Decolonisation in South-East Asia: Britain, Malaya and Singapore 1941-1967 (2000) (42)
- War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore (2012) (41)
- The Malayan Emergency (2021) (38)
- Dialogues with Chin Peng: New light on the Malayan communist party (2004) (33)
- Corpses, prisoners of war and captured documents: British and communist narratives of the Malayan emergency, and the dynamics of intelligence transformation (1999) (31)
- Detention, Deportation and Resettlement: British Counterinsurgency and Malaya's Rural Chinese, 1948–60 (2015) (25)
- Negotiating with the Malayan Communist Party, 1948–89 (2011) (18)
- The origins of the Asian Cold War: Malaya 1948 (2009) (16)
- Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia (2006) (16)
- Using and Abusing the Past: The Malayan Emergency as Counterinsurgency Paradigm (2012) (14)
- ‘Devils that suck the blood of the Malayan People’: The Case for Post-Revisionist Analysis of Counter-insurgency Violence (2018) (14)
- Singapore from Temasek to the 21st Century: Reinventing the Global City (2010) (11)
- Extracting counterinsurgency lessons: The Malayan Emergency and Afghanistan (2009) (8)
- The long march to peace of the Malayan Communist Party in southern Thailand (2008) (7)
- The origins of the Southeast Asian Cold War (2009) (7)
- Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia (2008) (6)
- Did Singapore Have to Fall?: Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress (2003) (5)
- Imperialism and decolonisation in Southeast Asia: colonial forces and British world power post colonial analyses and residues (2006) (5)
- Malaya - Between Two Terrors: "People's History" and the Malayan Emergency (2013) (5)
- Imperial systems of power, colonial forces and the making of modern Southeast Asia (2006) (5)
- Theories and approaches to British decolonization in southeast Asia (2003) (5)
- Remaking Singapore 1990-2004: from disciplinarian development to bureaucratic proxy democracy (2010) (4)
- Setting the record straight on the Malayan counterinsurgency strategy: interview with Karl Hack (2011) (4)
- Framing Singapore's History (2012) (3)
- Singapore: reinventing the global city (2010) (3)
- British and Communist Crises in Malaya: A Response to Anthony Short (2000) (3)
- Biar Mati Anak: Jangan Mati Adat [Better Your Children Die Than Your Traditions] (2002) (3)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai and King Rat : protest and ex-prisoner of war memory in Britain and Australia (2007) (3)
- The Malayan Emergency: Essays on a Small, Distant War by Souchou Yao (review) (2018) (3)
- Contending with Nationalism and Communism: British Policy Towards Southeast Asia, 1945–65 (2009) (3)
- The Malayan Emergency: British Counterinsurgency Phases and the Triumph of Geo-demographic Control, 1948-60 (2015) (2)
- Demography and domination in Southeast Asia (2006) (2)
- Dutch memories of captivity in the Pacific War (2007) (2)
- Between Terror and Talking, the Place of ‘Negotiation’ in Colonial Conflict (2011) (2)
- Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence: The Wars of Independence in Kenya and Alger (2014) (2)
- Japanese-occupied Asia from 1941 to 1945: one occupier, many captivities and memories (2007) (2)
- Unfinished Decolonisation and Globalisation (2019) (2)
- Parameters to estimate the metal dusting attack in different gases (2022) (2)
- ‘Hide and seek’: children of Japanese Fathers and Indies European Mothers (2008) (1)
- Using and Abusing the Past (2012) (1)
- The Art of Counterinsurgency: Phase Analysis with Primary Reference to Malaya (1948-60), and Secondary Reference to Kenya (1952-60) (2017) (1)
- Singapore from Temasek to the 21st Century (2010) (1)
- Tropical transitions in colonial counter-insurgency: From Malayan Emergency to post-colonial partnership (2015) (1)
- Decolonization and violence in Southeast Asia Crises of identity and authority (2012) (1)
- The Grey Matter of Gibbs Energy Sets for Materials (2019) (0)
- Malaysia. Emergency Propaganda: The Winning of Hearts and Minds, 1948-1958. By KUMAR RAMAKRISHNA. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2001. Pp. xii, 306. Map, Notes, Bibliography, Index. (2002) (0)
- Coming to terms: fear, loathing, revenge & reconciliation in Australian Stories of Japanese Occupation (2005) (0)
- AFTER THE BATTLE (2004) (0)
- Singapore. Constructing Singapore: Elitism, ethnicity and the nation-building project. By Michael D. Barr and Zlatko Skrbiš. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2008. Pp. 271, Notes, Bibliography, Index. (2010) (0)
- Malaysia. The rise and fall of communism in Sarawak, 1940–1990. By VERNON L. PORRITT. Clayton, Victoria: Monash Asia Institute, 2004. Pp. xiv, 354. Illustrations, Appendices, Geographical coordinates, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. (2007) (0)
- Spring end grinding machine (1967) (0)
- The Dutch community in Thailand. (2008) (0)
- We Meet Again: Britain and Singapore 1945-1946 (2019) (0)
- REGIONAL AMBITIONS AND LIMITED RESOURCES (1945-54) (2013) (0)
- Book Review: A Global History of Relocation in Counterinsurgency Warfare by Edward J. Erickson (ed.) (2021) (0)
- Singapore Operation Matador: Britain's War Plans Against the Japanese 1918–1941 . By Ong Chit Chung. Singapore: Times Academic Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 314. Maps, Photographs, Bibliography, Index. (1998) (0)
- China – including on producing ‘bicultural’ rather than merely bilingual students – has been accompanied by relative neglect of biculturalism for Malays and Indians (2010) (0)
- Tropical transitions in colonial counter-insurgency (2014) (0)
- SINGAPORE IN 1941 (2004) (0)
- The campaign: from Singapore to Syonan (2003) (0)
- From Baling to Merdeka: 1955-60 (2004) (0)
- The Malayan trajectory in Singapore's history (2010) (0)
- 覇権の味 = A taste for power (2012) (0)
- The Limits of British Influence in Asia (1995) (0)
- Singapore. The men who lost Singapore, 1938–1942 By Ronald McCrum Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2017. Pp. 240. Maps, Images, Bibliography, Index. (2022) (0)
- Decolonization and violence in Southeast Asia: crises of authority and identity (2012) (0)
- THE GUNS OF SINGAPORE (2004) (0)
- 2 Demography and domination in Southeast Asia (2005) (0)
- Reviews (2007) (0)
- Brian Drohan. Brutality in an Age of Human Rights: Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017. Pp. 256. $45 (cloth). (2019) (0)
- Global & Imperial History Research Seminar (2014) (0)
- Singapore and the Indonesian Revolution 1945–50: Recollections of Suryono Darusman. By Suryono Darusman. Introduction by Mochtar Kusmaatmadja. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1992. Pp. x, 73. (2000) (0)
- Behind Barbed Wire: Chinese New Villages during the Malayan Emergency, 1948–1960 by Tan Teng Phee (review) (2020) (0)
- David Easter. Britain and the Confrontation with Indonesia, 1960–1966 . London: Tauris, 2004. Pp. x+254. $65.00 (cloth). (2007) (0)
- Index to Volume 10 (1994) (0)
- Communist Policy and Support: 1948-57 (2004) (0)
- David French, Fighting EOKA: The British Counter-Insurgency Campaign on Cyprus, 1955-1959 (2016) (0)
- Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Pacific War (review) (2003) (0)
- THE FATAL DECISIONS (2004) (0)
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