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Policing the empire

01 January 1991

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Policing the empire
libdoc March=1992

Government, authority and control, 1830-1940

Author: Anderson, David M & Killingray, David (eds)
Publisher: Manchester University Press 1991, Index

Keywords: Colonialism, History, Police, Africa, Caribbean,
India, Australia, New Zealand

1. Consent, coercion and colonial control: policing the empire
1830-1940 (Anderson & Killingray)

Part 1: Policing the colonies of settlement, 1830-1900
2. The `Irish Model' and the empire: a case for reassessment
(Hawkins)
3. The varieties of policing: colonial Queensland, 1860-1900
(Finnane)
4. The policing of colonial New Zealand: from informal to formal
control, 1840-1907 (Hill)
5. Patterns of policing in the post-emancipation British
Caribbean,
1835-95 (Johnson)
6. Imposing the British way: the Canadian Mounted Police and the
Klondike gold rush (Morrison)

Part 2: Colonial policing in Africa and India
7. Guarding the extending frontier: policing the Gold Coast,
1865-1913 (Killingray)
8. The ordering of rural India: the policing of nineteenth
century
Bengal and Bihar (Robb)
9. From military to tribal police: policing the Upper Nile
Province
of the Sudan (Johnson)
10.`Protectors and friends of the people'? The South African
Constabulary in the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony
1900-08
(Grundlingh)
11.Policing, persecution and the law in Colonial Kenya, c.
1905-39
(Anderson)

Part 3: Policing the colonial city
12. `Whisky detectives' in town: the enforcement of the liquor
laws
in Hamilton, Ontario, c. 1870-1900
13. Thieves, drunkards and vagrants: defining crime in colonial
Mombasa, 1902-32 (Willis)
14. Bobbies to Boers: police, people and social control in Cape
Town
(Nasson)

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