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From the Victorian period to the present, images of the policeman have played a prominent role in the literature of empire, shaping popular perceptions of colonial policing. This book covers and compares the different ways and means that were employed in policing policies from 1830 to 1940. Countries covered range from Ireland, Australia, Africa and India to New Zealand and the Caribbean. As patterns of authority, of accountability and of consent, control and coercion evolved in each colony the general trend was towards a greater concentration of police time upon crime. The most important aspect of imperial linkage in colonial policing was the movement of personnel from one colony to another. To evaluate the precise role of the 'Irish model' in colonial police forces is at present probably beyond the powers of any one scholar. Policing in Queensland played a vital role in the construction of the colonial social order. In 1886 the constabulary was split by legislation into the New Zealand Police Force and the standing army or Permanent Militia. The nature of the British influence in the Klondike gold rush may be seen both in the policy of the government and in the actions of the men sent to enforce it. The book also overviews the role of policing in guarding the Gold Coast, police support in 1954 Sudan, Orange River Colony, Colonial Mombasa and Kenya, as well as and nineteenth-century rural India.
large numbers of laws. Statistical evidence on crime in early colonial Mombasa is scanty, so that all comments on the nature and activities of the police must be to some extent impressionistic. Yet such evidence as there is suggests that the police and the administration were in dispute over the nature of ‘crime’; over which activities constituted crime and should be combated
African Waterfront: urban disorder and the transformation of work in colonial Mombasa (New Haven and London, 1987), esp. pp. 247–73. 26 Agwu Akpala, ‘The background of the Enugu Colliery shooting incident in 1949’. Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria , 3 (1965), pp. 335 – 64
, Jacqueline Leckie and Doug Munro (eds), Labour in the South Pacific (Townsville: James Cook University, 1990), 53–4. 68 Frederick Cooper, On the African Waterfront: Urban Disorder and the Transformation of Work in Colonial Mombasa (New Haven: Yale University Press
. Elkin, ‘Our Colour Problem. Plight of the Aborigines. A New Start’, Sydney Morning Herald (1 January 1938), p. 9. 15 Frederick Cooper, ‘Colonizing Time: Work Rhythms and Labor Conflict in Colonial Mombasa’, in Nicholas B. Dirks (ed), Colonialism and Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992), p. 225. 16
. 82 On conflicts over working rhythms, Frederick Cooper , ‘ Colonising time: work rhythms and labour conflict in colonial Mombasa ’ in Nicolas B. Dirks (ed.), Colonialism and Culture ( Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan , 1992 ), pp. 209 – 45 ; Phyllis Martin , Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville ( Cambridge : Cambridge
, Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa , Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2001 , pp. 79, 155–6 55 See, for example, F. Cooper, On the African Waterfront: Urban Disorder and the Transformation of Work in Colonial Mombasa , New
Social Origins , pp. 188–95. 26 On the Mombasa strike, and more generally on labour and unions in that city, see Frederick Cooper, On the African Waterfront: Urban Disorder and the Transformation of Work in Colonial Mombasa (New Haven and London, 1987), esp. pp. 78
on time within colonial/imperial contexts are: Jean Comaroff, ‘Missionaries and Mechanical Clocks: an Essay on Religion and History in South Africa’, Journal of Religion , 71 ( 1991 ): 1–17; Frederick Cooper, ‘Colonizing Time: Work Rhythms and Labor Conflict in Colonial Mombasa’, in Nicholas B. Dirks (ed.), Colonialism and Culture (Ann Arbor, Mich.: The University of
African Waterfront: Urban Disorder and the Transformation of Work in Colonial Mombasa (New Haven, 1987). Furet, François and Jacques Ozouf, Reading and Writing: Literacy in France from Calvin to Jules Ferry , Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture 5 (Cambridge, [1977] 1982). Herlihy, David and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Tuscans and Their Families: A Study of the Florentine Catasto of 1427 (New Haven, [1978] 1985). Hudson, Pat, History by Numbers: An Introduction to Quantitative Approaches (London: Arnold, 2000). Laslett, Peter, The World We Have