"Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-1940" by Martin Thomas
Critical Perspectives on Empire
CamUni Press | 2012 | ISBN: 0521768411 9780521768412 | 542 pages | PDF | 7 MB
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. Thgis 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.