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Violence and colonial order : police, workers and protest in the European colonial empires, 1918-1940 /
"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 loca...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Critical perspectives on empire.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 527 pages) : maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139570602 1139570609 9781139568791 1139568795 9781139045643 1139045644 9781139572354 1139572350 1139887998 9781139887991 1139579207 9781139579209 1139573217 9781139573214 1283638533 9781283638531 1139569694 9781139569699 |