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Critical Perspectives on Empire

Violence and Colonial Order

Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-1940

Thomas, Martin (University of Exeter)

Violence and Colonial Order

Critical Perspectives on Empire

Violence and Colonial Order

Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-1940

Critical Perspectives on Empire: Violence and Colonial Order

 

"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.

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Beschrijving Critical Perspectives on Empire: Violence and Colonial Order

Pioneering account of the connections between the politics of imperial repression and the economic structures of European colonies between the two World Wars. Ranging across Africa, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean, the book explains why labour control and the containment of uprisings and dissent became central facets of colonial policing.

ISBN
9780521768412
Pagina's
540
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Critical Perspectives on Empire
NUR
680
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1
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Hardback
Taal
Engels
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Cambridge University Press

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