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Auteur(s) : Thomas, Martin (1964-....)
Titre(s) : Violence and colonial order [Texte imprimé] : police, workers and protest in the European colonial empires, 1918-1940 / Martin Thomas
Publication : Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,, 2012
Description matérielle : xii, 527 pages ; 24 cm
Collection : Critical perspectives on empire
Lien à la collection : Critical perspectives on empire
Comprend : Introduction: Violence and colonial order ; Part I. Ideas and Practices: 1. Colonial
policing: a discursive framework ; 2. 'What did you do in the colonial police force,
daddy?' ; 3. 'Paying the butcher's bill': policing British colonial protest after
1918 ; Part II. Colonial Case Studies: British, French and Belgian: 4. Communal policing,
policing work, or intelligence gathering? Gendarmes at work in Morocco and Algeria
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 British 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-516) and index
"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"--
Sujet(s) : Répression politique -- Pays en développement -- 1900-1945
Résistance politique -- Pays en développement -- 1900-1945
Colonies -- Administration -- Europe -- 1900-1945
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780521768412. - ISBN 0521768411 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42744671x
Notice n° :
FRBNF42744671
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