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Mark Condos

Western Visiting Research Fellow Chair

Visiting from King’s College London, UK

PhD, University of Cambridge 2013

Email: mark.condos@kcl.ac.uk

Office: 2237

Office Hours: By appointment

Research Interests

Professor Condos is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Imperial and Global History at King’s College London, UK. He specializes in the history of the nineteenth and early twentieth century British and French empires, with a particular focus on colonial warfare and counterinsurgency, anti-colonial resistance, colonial violence and law, the governance of imperial frontiers, and the history of emotions.

His most recent book, Empire with a Vengeance: Honour and Revenge in European Colonial Warfare, 1815-1914 was published in 2026 by Hurst and Oxford University and examines the ways the British and French empires regularly framed imperial wars of conquest and counterinsurgency using the language the honour and revenge, making claims about the need to avenge alleged insults, punish perceived transgressions, and exact retribution for “crimes’ committed against the dignity and honour of Europeans.


Current Projects

During my tenure as a Western Visiting Research Fellow Chair, I will be working with Professor Frank Schumacher on a new project examining the trajectories of violence between European and American metropoles and their colonies. The project aims to unravel the ways that empire provided a testing ground for new techniques of violent and authoritarian governance that then returned to the metropole in range of different political, legal, administrative, military, and economic guises. In addition, I am also working on a project about the history of extreme violence and atrocity in European empires.

Academic Appointment

Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Global History

King’s College, London UK


Publications

Monographs:

Empire with a Vengeance: Honour and Revenge in European Colonial Warfare, 1815-1914 (Hurst and Oxford University Press, 2026)

The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India, 1849-1935 (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

Journal Articles:

“Emergency, Exception, and the Rule of Law in Colonial India”, First World War Studies 14, no. 1 (2024): 29-50

“The Ajnala Massacre of 1857 and the Politics of Colonial Violence and Commemoration in Contemporary India”, Journal of Genocide Studies (2022): 1-19

“The Indian ‘Alsatia’: Sovereignty, Extradition, and the Limits of Franco-British Colonial Policing”, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 48, no. 1 (2020): 101-126

With Gavin Rand, “Coercion and Conciliation at the Edge of Empire: State-Building and its Limits in Waziristan, 1849-1914”, The Historical Journal 61, no. 3 (2018): 695-718

“Fanaticism and the Politics of Resistance along the North-West Frontier of British India”, Comparative Studies in Society and History 58, no. 3 (2016): 717-745

“License to Kill: The Murderous Outrages Act and the Rule of Law in Colonial India, 1867-1925”, Modern Asian Studies 50, no. 2 (2016): 479-517