Policing the Empire: Government, Authority, and Control, 1830--1940

Abstract

Introduction - consent, coercion and colonial control - policing the Empire, 1830-1940. Part 1 Policing the colonies of settlement, 1830-1900: the Irish Model and the Empire - a case for re-assessment, Richard Hawkins the varieties of policing - colonial Queensland, 1860-1900, Mark Finnane the policing of colonial New Zealand - from informal to formal control, 1840-1907, Richard S.Hill patterns of policing in the post-emancipation British Caribbean, 1835-1895, Howard Johnson imposing the British way - the Canadian Mounted Police and the Klondike gold rush, William R.Morrison. Part 2 Colonial policing in Africa and India, 1860-1940: guarding the extending frontier, - policing the Gold Coast, 1865-1913, David Killingray the ordering of rural India - the policing of 19th-century Bengal and Bihar, Peter Robb from military to tribal police - policing the Upper Nile Province of the Sudan, Douglas H.Johnson protectors and friends of the people? the South African constabulary in the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, 1900-1908, Albert Grundlingh policing prosecution and the law in colonial Kenya, 1905-1939, David M.Anderson. Part 3 Policing the colonial city: whisky detectives in town - the reinforcement of liquor laws in Hamilton, Ontario, 1870-1900, James L.Sturgis thieves, drunkards and vagrants - defining crime in colonial Mombasa, 1902-1932, Justin Willis from bobbies to Boers - police, people and social control in Cape Town, Bill Nasson.