Название: Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires
Автор: Martin Thomas
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521768411
Год: 2012
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 540
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 6,9 МБ
Язык: Английский
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.