"Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-1940" by Martin Thomas
Critical Perspectives on Empire
CamUni Press | 2012 | ISBN: 0521768411 9780521768412 | 542 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This is a pioneering, multi-empire account of the relationship between the politics of imperial repression and the economic structures of European colonies between the two World Wars. Thgis work sheds new light on broader trends in the direction and intent of colonial state repression. It shows that the management of colonial economies, particularly in crisis conditions, took precedence over individual imperial powers' particular methods of rule in determining the forms and functions of colonial police actions.
Ranging across colonial Africa, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean, Martin Thomas explores the structure of local police forces, their involvement in colonial labour control and the containment of uprisings and dissent.
Martin Thomas’ impressively wide-ranging and thoroughly documented study for the first time analyses the links between colonial policing, political economy and imperial policy in Africa, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean." -Robert Aldrich, Professor of European History, University of Sydney
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Introduction: Police, labour and colonial violence
Part I. Ideas and Practices:
1. Colonial policing: a discursive framework
2. 'What did you do in the colonial police force, daddy?' Policing inter-war dissent
3. 'Paying the butcher's bill': policing British colonial protest after 1918
Part II. Colonial Case Studies: French, British and Belgian:
4. Gendarmes: work and policing in French North Africa after 1918
5. Policing Tunisia: mineworkers, fellahs and nationalist protest
6. Rubber, coolies and communists: policing disorder in French Vietnam
7. Stuck together? Rubber production, labour regulation and policing in Malaya
8. Caning the workers? Policing and violence in Jamaica's sugar industry
9. Oil and order: repressive violence in Trinidad's oilfields
10. Profits, privatization and police: the birth of Sierra Leone's diamond industry
11. Policing and politics in Nigeria: the political economy of indirect rule, 1929–39
12. Depression and revolt: policing the Belgian Congo
Conclusion
Notes to the text.
Bibliography
Index
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