Policing the empire : government, authority and control, 1830-1940
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Policing the empire : government, authority and control, 1830-1940
（Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie）
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1991
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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From the Victorian period to the present, images of the policeman have played a prominent role in the literature of empire, shaping popular perceptions of colonial policing. This book covers and compares the different ways and means that were employed in policing policies from 1830 to 1940. Countries covered range from Ireland, Australia, Africa and India to New Zealand and the Caribbean. As patterns of authority, of accountability and of consent, control and coercion evolved in each colony the general trend was towards a greater concentration of police time upon crime. The most important aspect of imperial linkage in colonial policing was the movement of personnel from one colony to another. To evaluate the precise role of the 'Irish model' in colonial police forces is at present probably beyond the powers of any one scholar. Policing in Queensland played a vital role in the construction of the colonial social order. In 1886 the constabulary was split by legislation into the New Zealand Police Force and the standing army or Permanent Militia. The nature of the British influence in the Klondike gold rush may be seen both in the policy of the government and in the actions of the men sent to enforce it. The book also overviews the role of policing in guarding the Gold Coast, police support in 1954 Sudan, Orange River Colony, Colonial Mombasa and Kenya, as well as and nineteenth-century rural India. -- .
Table of Contents
- Introduction - consent, coercion and colonial control - policing the Empire, 1830-1940. Part 1 Policing the colonies of settlement, 1830-1900: the "Irish Model" and the Empire - a case for re-assessment, Richard Hawkins
- the varieties of policing - colonial Queensland, 1860-1900, Mark Finnane
- the policing of colonial New Zealand - from informal to formal control, 1840-1907, Richard S.Hill
- patterns of policing in the post-emancipation British Caribbean, 1835-1895, Howard Johnson
- imposing the British way - the Canadian Mounted Police and the Klondike gold rush, William R.Morrison. Part 2 Colonial policing in Africa and India, 1860-1940: guarding the extending frontier, - policing the Gold Coast, 1865-1913, David Killingray
- the ordering of rural India - the policing of 19th-century Bengal and Bihar, Peter Robb
- from military to tribal police - policing the Upper Nile Province of the Sudan, Douglas H.Johnson
- "protectors and friends of the people"? the South African constabulary in the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, 1900-1908, Albert Grundlingh
- policing prosecution and the law in colonial Kenya, 1905-1939, David M.Anderson. Part 3 Policing the colonial city: "whisky detectives" in town - the reinforcement of liquor laws in Hamilton, Ontario, 1870-1900, James L.Sturgis
- thieves, drunkards and vagrants - defining crime in colonial Mombasa, 1902-1932, Justin Willis
- from bobbies to Boers - police, people and social control in Cape Town, Bill Nasson.
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