This article reconsiders the forms and functions of colonial police actions in the repression of organized dissent. In part, it is a study of changing patterns of repressive behaviour in worsening economic conditions, an approach which explains the concentration on the inter-war period, cleaved as it was by the acute economic disruptions of the Depression years. In part, it is an investigation of the connections between perception and action. Focusing on Colonial Office instructions regarding protest policing, it examines the ways in which police and military security forces in the British Empire constructed enemies of colonial state ‘order’. This, it is argued, shaped the resultant strategies of repressive restriction, riot control, and la...
This article builds on the work of Walter Rodney, Thomas Holt, Gad Heuman, Diana Paton, and others w...
This article considers the breakdown in discipline in the British Army which occurred in Britain and...
Recent historical research exposed the myth of self-restraint as the distinctive feature of British...
The official published version of this article can be found at the link below.This article examines ...
This article argues that between 1914 and 1960, the criminal statistics of England and Wales reflect...
The First World War saw an unprecedented expansion of the executive powers of the British government...
Why are contemporary laws and techniques that state authorities use to crack down on political disse...
The First World War saw an unprecedented expansion of the executive powers of the British government...
Why are contemporary laws and techniques that state authorities use to crack down on political disse...
This article discusses the models and styles of policing deployed by European powers in their overse...
The turn of the twentieth century marked an important watershed in the history of urban ‘public orde...
A number of works have recently been published that seek to re-narrate colonial histories, with a pa...
This article comprises a study of the devastating impact of the First World War upon colonial author...
This article is concerned with the structure of repressive governance, and how it has evolved histor...
This article argues that the emotion of shame explains how John Stuart Mill and the Jamaica Committe...
This article builds on the work of Walter Rodney, Thomas Holt, Gad Heuman, Diana Paton, and others w...
This article considers the breakdown in discipline in the British Army which occurred in Britain and...
Recent historical research exposed the myth of self-restraint as the distinctive feature of British...
The official published version of this article can be found at the link below.This article examines ...
This article argues that between 1914 and 1960, the criminal statistics of England and Wales reflect...
The First World War saw an unprecedented expansion of the executive powers of the British government...
Why are contemporary laws and techniques that state authorities use to crack down on political disse...
The First World War saw an unprecedented expansion of the executive powers of the British government...
Why are contemporary laws and techniques that state authorities use to crack down on political disse...
This article discusses the models and styles of policing deployed by European powers in their overse...
The turn of the twentieth century marked an important watershed in the history of urban ‘public orde...
A number of works have recently been published that seek to re-narrate colonial histories, with a pa...
This article comprises a study of the devastating impact of the First World War upon colonial author...
This article is concerned with the structure of repressive governance, and how it has evolved histor...
This article argues that the emotion of shame explains how John Stuart Mill and the Jamaica Committe...
This article builds on the work of Walter Rodney, Thomas Holt, Gad Heuman, Diana Paton, and others w...
This article considers the breakdown in discipline in the British Army which occurred in Britain and...
Recent historical research exposed the myth of self-restraint as the distinctive feature of British...