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At the end of the line: Colonial policing and the imperial endgame 1945-80 (Studies in Imperialism) - Softcover

Buch 32 von 181: Studies in Imperialism

Sinclair, Georgina

 
9780719071393: At the end of the line: Colonial policing and the imperial endgame 1945-80 (Studies in Imperialism)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0719071399 ISBN 13: 9780719071393
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Colonial policing and the imperial endgame is the first comprehensive study of the colonial police and their complex role within Britain's long and turbulent process of decolonisation, a time characterised by political upheaval and colonial conflict.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Georgina Sinclair is Research Associate in the European Centre for the Study of Policing at The Open University

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Colonial policing and the imperial endgame is the first comprehensive study of the colonial police and their complex role within Britain's long and turbulent process of decolonisation, a time characterised by political upheaval and colonial conflict.

The Colonial Police Service was created in 1936 in order to standardise all imperial police forces and mould colonial policing to the British model. From the British Caribbean to the Middle East, the Mediterranean to British Colonial Africa and on to Southeast Asia, colonial police forces struggled with the unrest and conflict that stemmed from Britain's withdrawal from its empire. As the shadow of decolonisation grew ever longer, so colonial police forces reverted back to their traditional role as a colony's first line of defence. At the same time, as tensions increased throughout the empire, so too did the power of the police through the development of police intelligence systems and counter-insurgency units. Colonial policing and the imperial endgame controversially asserts that it was coercion rather than consent which was more commonly associated with the work of police forces during this period of political dislocation.

Georgina Sinclair's focussed study of colonial policing during this period facilitates a greater understanding of the processes of decolonisation.

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Colonial policing and the imperial endgame is the first comprehensive study of the colonial police and their complex role within Britains long and turbulent process of decolonisation, a time characterised by political upheaval and colonial conflict.The Colonial Police Service was created in 1936 in order to standardise all imperial police forces and mould colonial policing to the British model. From the British Caribbean to the Middle East, the Mediterranean to British Colonial Africa and on to Southeast Asia, colonial police forces struggled with the unrest and conflict that stemmed from Britains withdrawal from its empire. As the shadow of decolonisation grew ever longer, so colonial police forces reverted back to their traditional role as a colonys first line of defence. At the same time, as tensions increased throughout the empire, so too did the power of the police through the development of police intelligence systems and counter-insurgency units. Colonial policing and the imperial endgame controversially asserts that it was coercion rather than consent which was more commonly associated with the work of police forces during this period of political dislocation.Georgina Sinclair's focussed study of colonial policing during this period facilitates a greater understanding of the processes of decolonisation.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719071399
ISBN 13 
9780719071393
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Anzahl der Seiten
264
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