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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Martin Thomas (University of Exeter)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.720kg ISBN: 9781107519541ISBN 10: 1107519543 Pages: 540 Publication Date: 14 May 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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.Reviews'In a colonial system threatened by economic crisis, labour protest and rising nationalism, efforts to safeguard the colonial political economy provided the key to the policing of the empire. Martin Thomas' impressively wide-ranging and thoroughly documented study for the first time analyses the links between colonial policing, political economy and imperial policy in Africa, southeast Asia and the Caribbean.' Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney 'Violence and Colonial Order testifies to the ability of comparative historical inquiry to develop new integrative approaches to colonial governance, political economies, and coercive labour regimes. In taking its analysis of colonial policing beyond its use in political repression and into the realm of commodity production and worker discipline, Thomas' masterful case studies shed invaluable light on both local particularities and cross-colonial overlaps alike.' Elizabeth Buettner, University of York 'Martin Thomas has produced a remarkable monograph on policing and colonial violence during the inter-war years. Comparative in approach, it spans several colonies, countries and continents, and combines careful micro-level case studies with an overarching and persuasive thesis concerning the centrality of political-economic conditions. It is a wonderful achievement.' Talbot Imlay, Universite Laval, Quebec 'Violence and Colonial Order is immense in its scope and erudition. Thomas ably compares and contrasts cases as different as oil fields in Tobago and rubber plantations in Indochina. The work is driven by original empirical research but also demonstrates an impressive grasp of the relevant secondary literature. Coming just five years after his superb analysis of colonial intelligence gathering, Empires of Intelligence (2007), one cannot help but marvel at how he has managed to produce another ambitious and original work at such a clip.' Mary Dewhurst Lewis, H-Diplo (h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables) 'Martin Thomas is one of the foremost specialists in the history of colonial empires in the interwar period. He returns to his period of expertise to put forth a stimulating reinterpretation of the impact of economic mutations on the political upheavals within the European empires of the time. In this comparative history project, Thomas invites us to take a different look at the role of economic factors in history, while also proposing a new focal point.' Raphaelle Branche, University of Paris-1-Pantheon Sorbonne, IUF 'This book constitutes a critical addition to the literature on the workings of modern colonial states ... Thomas has become a force among historians of imperialism, especially of French overseas empire ... His strengths are wide-ranging diplomatic and political inquiry, comparison, exhaustive archival research, and nuanced arguments, eschewing overly ambitious pronouncements in favor of slicing through the apparently commonplace to reorient our view. He has done it again with Violence and Colonial Order.' Matthew G. Stanard, Berry College 'Martin Thomas's remarkable Violence and Colonial Order succeeds in breaking new ground thanks in part to a breathtakingly comparative approach ... His fine book will be of interest to a wide range of students and scholars, from world historians to labor, police, and colonial historians.' Eric T. Jennings, American Historical Review Author InformationMartin Charles Thomas is Professor of Colonial History in the Department of History at the University of Exeter. He is a director of the University's Centre for the Study of War, State and Society, an interdisciplinary research centre that supports research into the impact of armed conflict and collective violence on societies and communities. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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