Imperial Gallows: Murder, Violence and the Death Penalty in British Colonial Africa, c.1915-60 (Empire’s Other Histories)

Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Glossary and List of Abbreviations
Introduction Capital Punishment and Colonial Rule: Punishment Violence and ‘Civilization’ in British Africa
Chapter 1 ‘The Extreme Penalty of the Law’: Law, Courts and Colonial Criminal Justice
Chapter 2 The Ultimate Deterrent in a Colonial Context? Capital Punishment in Colonial Penal Regimes
Chapter 3 To Hang or not to Hang? Capital Sentencing, Categories of Colonial Criminality and the Royal Prerogative of Mercy
Chapter 4 Cultural Defence Narratives, African Voices and the Emotional Landscapes of Colonial Mercy
Chapter 5 An exceptional penalty for exceptional crimes: Insurgency, colonial violence and the extension of the death penalty
Chapter 6 Shocking crimes and scandalous punishments: Imperial politics, humanitarian sentiment and the death penalty
Chapter 7 ‘In a humane and decorous manner’: Rituals of execution from public hangings to death row
Conclusion: The imperial gallows and colonial rule in British Africa
Bibliography
Index