Violence and colonial order police, workers and protest in the European colonial empires, 1918-1940

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. Ranging across colonial Africa, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean, Martin Thomas explores the structure of local poli...

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Main Author: Thomas, Martin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012
Series:Critical perspectives on empire
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