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"Colonial conflict" as a book category covers works—fiction and nonfiction—that focus on the violent and political struggles that arise from colonization and imperial expansion. These books examine clashes over land, resources and sovereignty between imperial powers, settlers, and indigenous or colonized peoples, exploring military campaigns, guerrilla resistance, revolts, espionage, and the legal and diplomatic maneuvers that accompany them. They emphasize power imbalances, cultural contact and clash, identity and loyalty, moral ambiguity, and the social and economic consequences of conquest and occupation, often delving into the long-term legacies of trauma, displacement and nation-building. Settings range from early modern and Victorian empires to 20th-century decolonization and can overlap with military history, political drama, postcolonial literature, adventure and alternate history, while offering perspectives from both colonizers and the colonized.

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