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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.