Policing and decolonisation : politics, nationalism, and the police, 1917-65
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Policing and decolonisation : politics, nationalism, and the police, 1917-65
（Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie）
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1992
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Includes bibliographical references
Index: p. 218-227
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内容説明
As imperial political authority was increasingly challenged, sometimes with violence, locally recruited police forces became the front-line guardians of alien law and order. This book presents a study that looks at the problems facing the imperial police forces during the acute political dislocations following decolonization in the British Empire. It examines the role and functions of the colonial police forces during the process of British decolonisation and the transfer of powers in eight colonial territories. The book emphasises that the British adopted a 'colonial' solution to their problems in policing insurgency in Ireland. The book illustrates how the recruitment of Turkish Cypriot policemen to maintain public order against Greek Cypriot insurgents worsened the political situation confronting the British and ultimately compromised the constitutional settlement for the transfer powers. In Cyprus and Malaya, the origins and ethnic backgrounds of serving policemen determined the effectiveness which enabled them to carry out their duties. In 1914, the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) of Ireland was the instrument of a government committed to 'Home Rule' or national autonomy for Ireland. As an agency of state coercion and intelligence-gathering, the police were vital to Britain's attempts to hold on to power in India, especially against the Indian National Congress during the agitational movements of the 1920s and 1930s. In April 1926, the Palestine police force was formally established. The shape of a rapidly rising rate of urban crime laid the major challenge confronting the Kenya Police. -- .
目次
- Policing insurgency in Ireland, 1914-23, Charles Townshend
- police power and the demise of British rule in India, 1930-1947, David Arnold
- communal conflict and insurrection in Palestine, 1936-48, Charlie Smith
- policing during the Malayan emergency, 1948-60 - Communism, communalism and decolonization, Tony Stockwell
- political intelligence and policing in the Gold Coast (Ghana), 1948-54, Richard Rathbone
- Special Branch and Mau Mau in colonial Kenya, David Throup
- Nyasaland - a police state?, John McCracken
- police, politics and communal discord in Cyprus, David Anderson.
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