Violence and Colonial Order
：Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918–1940
( Critical Perspectives on Empire )
Publication subTitle ：Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918–1940
Publication series ：Critical Perspectives on Empire
Author： Martin Thomas;
Publisher： Cambridge University Press
Publication year： 2012
E-ISBN: 9781316933770
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521768412
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780521768412
Subject： K1 World History
Keyword： 世界史
Language： ENG
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Description
A striking new interpretation of colonial policing and political violence in three empires between the two world wars. Pioneering account of the connections between the politics of imperial repression and the economic structures of European colonies between the two World Wars. Ranging across Africa, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean, the book explains why labour control and the containment of uprisings and dissent became central facets of colonial policing. Pioneering account of the connections between the politics of imperial repression and the economic structures of European colonies between the two World Wars. Ranging across Africa, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean, the book explains why labour control and the containment of uprisings and dissent became central facets of colonial policing. 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. 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. His 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. The politics of colonial labour thus became central to police work, with the depression years marking a watershed not only in local economic conditions but also in the breakdown of the European colonial order more generally. 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. 'In a colonial system threatened by economic crisis, labour protest and rising nationalism, efforts to safeguard the colonial political economy provided the key to the policing of the empire. 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, University of Sydney 'Violence and Colonial Order testifies to the ability of comparative historical inquiry to develop new integrative approaches to colonial governance, political economies, and coercive labour regimes. In taking its analysis of colonial policing beyond its
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