ABSTRACT

Many have shown how ‘the British way’, a doctrine of minimum force, was problematic in theory and practice, especially in the final decades of empire. While the role of the colonial police in suppressing uprisings is often overlooked, this article argues that the police carried out everyday counterinsurgency campaigns. Using British archival records, this article examines a 1950 dockworker strike in Dar es Salaam, the colonial capital of former Tanganyika. Workers’ resistance was perceived by colonial authorities as insurgency, which led to the crosspollination of new policing strategies throughout the British Empire to expand surveillance, control riots, and break strikes.

摘要

许多人已经表明，“英国方式”，即最小武力学说，在理论和实践上是如何存在问题的，尤其是在帝国的最后几十年。虽然殖民警察在镇压起义中的作用经常被忽视，但本文认为，警察每天都在开展平叛运动。本文使用英国档案记录，考察了 1950 年在前坦噶尼喀殖民首都达累斯萨拉姆发生的码头工人罢工。殖民当局将工人的抵抗视为叛乱，这导致整个大英帝国产生了新的警务战略，以扩大监视、控制骚乱和打破罢工。