Name: Policing, Race, and the Formation of Nineteenth-Century British Colonial Natal
ISBN: 978-3-031-33753-6

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Jacob Ivey ⁰

Jacob Ivey
1. School of Arts and Communication, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, USA
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Explores how policing and security institutions played an important role in the formation of British Colonial Natal
Presents real-life case studies which demonstrate instances crime and logistics within the colonial police
Argues that Natal’s system of state control was much more fluid than historians have previously understood

Part of the book series: Britain and the World (BAW)

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Keywords

KwaZulu-Natal
South African War
Race
Colonial Policing
Black agency
Colonial state formation
State control
Police institutions
Imperial rule
Black authority
Black constabulary
British Empire
History of violence
British Southern Africa
19th Century Colonial Natal
Colonial Settlement
Colonial Defence
Colonial security

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Policing, Race, and the Formation of Nineteenth-Century British Colonial Natal traces the creation, implementation, and evolution of the police institutions within British colonial Natal during ‘the formative period’ of the colony between 1845 and 1899. It examines how white and Black members of Natal’s colonial community formed their own systems of policing, creating structures of control that combined ideas from across multiple continents that illustrated the way imperial rule was not directed exclusively from the imperial metropole, but instead part of a complex mixing of indigenous and colonial ideals in the forging of colonial Natal. This influence had enormous ramifications for the police institutions in South Africa well into the twentieth century. Using numerous case studies involving the organization, actions, and influence of the police in Natal, this work provides examples of Black power and authority, prison escapes, violence by and against the constabulary, and recruitment and logistics within the colonial police. In the end, it places the history of KwaZulu-Natal centrally into the emergence of British imperial rule in South Africa in the nineteenth century.

Authors and Affiliations

School of Arts and Communication, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, USA

Jacob Ivey

About the author

Jacob Ivey is an Assistant Professor of History at Florida Memorial University, USA, South Florida’s only HBCU. He received his PhD from West Virginia University, USA. He writes on the British empire in Southern Africa and issues of race in South Africa and the Black Diaspora across the globe. This is his first book.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Policing, Race, and the Formation of Nineteenth-Century British Colonial Natal
Book Subtitle: Badges and Knobkerries
Authors: Jacob Ivey
Series Title: Britain and the World
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-33753-6Due: 11 October 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-33756-7Due: 11 October 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-33754-3Due: 11 October 2024
Series ISSN: 2947-7182
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7190
Edition Number: 1
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations

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