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Violence and colonial order : police, workers and protest in the Euroean colonial Empires, 1918 - 1940
Thomas Martin
Violence and colonial order : police, workers and protest in the Euroean colonial Empires, 1918 - 1940 - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012 - 527p xi
Table of contents
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.
9781107519541
1. Political Persecution - Developing Countries - History - 20th Century 2. Protest Movements 3. Europe - Colonies - Administration
303.609000 / THO
Violence and colonial order : police, workers and protest in the Euroean colonial Empires, 1918 - 1940 - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012 - 527p xi
Table of contents
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.
9781107519541
1. Political Persecution - Developing Countries - History - 20th Century 2. Protest Movements 3. Europe - Colonies - Administration
303.609000 / THO