David Killingray
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 76884 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Killingray |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Killingray |
| ASSINATURA | KILLINGRAY D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Goldsmiths University of London |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 102 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 506 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 93 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 9 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle
Sights, Sounds, Memories
African Military Migration in the First and Second World Wars
During the two world wars several million African soldiers and laborers served in colonial forces in theaters of war within Africa and overseas. The years 1939–46 probably saw the largest concerted movement of men overseas from tropical Africa since the days of the slave trade. The impact on individuals and families and the social well-being of rural communities, from where most recruits came, was profound. Soldiers’ experiences were like the exp…
Black Diaspora Christian Activity in Britain from the Late Eighteenth Century to 1950
Black men and women from across the Americas were a common feature of the British Christian scene in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They came as missionaries en route to Africa, as fugitives from British or United States slavery and as suppliants for financial aid for black-led churches. Much transatlantic shipping, dominated by British vessels, came to British ports which served as transit points for further travel. Black travelle…
Black Baptists and Pan-Africanism in Britain, 1890-1913
This essay examines the ideas, motivations and activities of a handful of black Baptists who played a role in the pan-African movement which straddled the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries, notably Thomas L. Johnson, Theophilus Scholes, Emmanuel Mulgrave, and William Forde. Several revisionist views are suggested. First, that although black professionals initiated and directed pan-African activities, they relied heavily on the moral,…
Race and Imperialism in the British Empire
This essay is an attempt to consider the British Empire in the last years of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth century from an alternative point of view. Most authors view the empire from a ‘North–South’ perspective: London’s impact on the world; the world’s reaction to London. The emphasis here is rather on the links that developed at Britain’s expense – between the white ruled Dominions and between the African and Asia…
Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica
African and Afro-Caribbean Repatriation, 1919–1922
Policing and decolonisation
Policing the empire
This important collection of essays breaks new ground in looking at the major role played by the colonial police forces in establishing and maintaining imperial authority.Policing the Empire highlights the centrality of the maintenance of law and order to the authority of the British Empire. A uniformed and disciplined body of paramilitary police, charged with imposing alien law and establishing and extending new measures of social control was on…
Gender issues and African colonial armies
All the colonial powers in Africa established small colonial armies, lightly armed bodies of locally recruited, uniformed and disciplined men who were used to conquer and 'pacify' territory, and to guard frontiers. This chapter addresses gender relations of African colonial armies. The armies of the Second World War contained a substantial number of white women in uniform, with whom some African soldiers enjoyed close relations, despite the best …
General editor’s introduction
The phrase 'Guardians of Empire' has a deliberately ambiguous ring.Guardians and wards have famously had relationships that run along the spectrum from the benevolent to the brutal.In the imperial setting, such terminology has sometimes been used to imply adulthood and tutelage according to some European notion of civilization or alleged economic development.From the standpoint of imperialists themselves, the concept of the guardian could be appl…
Index
Guardians of empire
Recruitment policies, ethnic divisions and new foci of loyalty ensured that in most colonies there would always be men ready to enlist as guardians of Empire. Imperial authority rested ultimately on military power and the ability of Empire to mobilize its metropolitan and colonial armed forces. The majority of recruits for colonial armies came from specific ethnic groups and peoples whom the Europeans perceived as 'martial races'. Colonial police…
Policing and Decolonisation
Policing the Empire
Guarding the extending frontier
This chapter discusses the development of a formal system of policing in the Gold Coast, the concluding date of 1913 marking the consolidation of British control over the territory that approximates to modern Ghana. It looks at the way in which a dual system of policing developed. The dual system includes an armed frontier force to secure the extending territory of the Gold Coast and a smaller unarmed civil police force to extend social control o…
Andrew E. Barnes. Global Christianity and the Black Atlantic
Transatlantic Networks of Early African Pentecostalism
Proto-Pentecostalist ideas in Britain owe a debt to the activities of the Gold Coast businessman Thomas Brem Wilson (1865–1929), who settled in London in 1901. His recently discovered diaries and personal papers detail his commercial interests and activities in West Africa and his relationships with a number of fellow Africans living in London. The diaries also record Brem Wilson's transatlantic involvement with J. A. Dowie's faith healing Cathol…
Methodists and their Missionary Societies 1760–1900
Book Review| January 01 2014 Methodists and their Missionary Societies 1760–1900 Pritchard, John, Methodists and their Missionary Societies 1760–1900Ashgate Methodist Studies Series. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. xxiii + 293 pp. £85 hb. ISBN: 978-1-4094-7049-6. David Killingray David Killingray Senior Research Fellow, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Wesley and Methodist Studies …
Demobilization in British and French Africa at the End of the First World War
This article reconsiders important aspects of African participation in the First World War, both in Europe and in Africa itself, as part of the British and French empires. More specifically, it explores demobilization at the end of the war in comparison with that process in Europe, paying close attention to the particularities of the colonial context. The article argues that, although French and British Africa were integrated significantly into t…
Chocolate Islands
Catherine Higgs's first book, The Ghost of Equality (1997), was a biography of a distinguished black South African, D. D. T. Jabavu. That background on Southern Africa has put her in a good position to write this book which, although largely focused on the West African Portuguese colonial islands of São Tomé and Príncipe and the mainland territory of Angola, also covers more widely the supply of Mozambican labour to the mines of the Rand. And an …
African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe 1923-80 by Timothy Stapleton
Africans in Britain
This collection of essays looks at the history of African people in Britain mainly over the past 200 years
The dog that did not bark
The Maintenance of Law and Order in British Colonial Africa
Journal Article THE MAINTENANCE OF LAW AND ORDER IN BRITISH COLONIAL AFRICA Get access DAVID KILLINGRAY DAVID KILLINGRAY The author teaches history at Goldsmith's College, University of London. Different versions of this paper have been discussed at seminars in London, Liverpool and East Lansing, and the author is grateful to friends and colleagues for their comments. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Africa…
Military and Labour Recruitment in the Gold Coast During the Second World War
During the Second World War the British West African colonies supplied raw materials and manpower for the war effort. The small peacetime army of the Gold Coast increased to nearly 70,000 men, including technical and service corps, and was used in overseas campaigns. Most soldiers were drawn from the supposed martial peoples of the Northern Territories but recruiting was extended to Asante and the south in mid-1940. Although formal conscription w…
A Swift Agent of Government’
In the inter-war years one major role for the Royal Air Force was imperial defence. The Air Staff further argued that air power, used in substitution for the Army, would provide a more economical and effective means of policing and subjugating unrest in the remoter and more inaccessible areas of the colonial empire in Asia and Africa. The first successful major operation by the R.A.F. in Somaliland in 1920 encouraged the extension of air policing…
Guardians of empire
Guardians of empire' explores the ways in which armies and armed forces were involved in the making ,the maintenance and the loss of overseas empire. The volume ranges widely in time and space. Besides chapters on the British Empire in Africa, Asia and Oceania, there are also essays on Algeria, the Dutch East Indies, the Germans in Africa and the American Empire in the Pacific. While not neglecting the traditional concerns of the military histori…
The ‘Rod of Empire’
Throughout the twentieth century the British Colonial Office sought to limit the severity of corporal punishment and to regulate more closely its use in the colonies. This article has looked at one aspect of that policy involving the African Colonial Forces. Most military officers argued that corporal punishment was essential to maintain discipline, especially in times of war or active service. The Colonial Office sought to limit severely the cir…
The Idea of a British Imperial African Army
Britain maintained small colonial armed forces in the African territories for internal security and local defence. In four periods of international crisis, when the British Empire was faced with a shortage of military manpower, it was proposed that African troops be used in imperial roles outside Africa. These proposals were closely related to the increasing opposition by India to the Indian Army being used for imperial defence in Asia and the Mi…
Beasts of Burden
Repercussions of World War I in the Gold Coast
Although on the periphery of the war Gold Coast resources and manpower were mobilized for the imperial war effort. The educated élite and many traditional rulers were loyal and internal conditions, despite the withdrawal of personnel and troops, generally peaceful. Small-scale disturbances occasioned by the war occurred, the most serious in the Northern Territories. The direction and pattern of Gold Coast external trade changed; exports, with the…
Africa and the Second World War
Africa and the Second World War
Labour Exploitation for Military Campaigns in British Colonial Africa 1870-1945
In the vast literature on warfare in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, relatively little has been written about the recruitment, organization and deployment of non-combatant labour required to service and supply the fighting line. The hundreds of thousands of general labourers, drawn from all parts of the globe, who served on the Western Front in 1914-18 have been almost completely ignored by historians.' So also have the porters and carrie…
Fighting for Britain
The first major study of the experiences of the hundreds of thousands of African soldiers who served with the British army during the Second World War.During the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaigns in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, Italy and Burma - the largest single movement of African men overseas since the slave trade. This account, based mainly o…
Khaki and Blue
Drawing upon a survey of former police officers in the six British colonies of Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, and Malawi, Clayton and Killingray examine the work of colonial law enforcement during the last years of British supremacy. In addition to such basic institutional information as the development of police forces from local militia, the training of African recruits, and the africanization of the police forces, the authors examine t…
Soldiers, Ex-Servicemen, and Politics in the Gold Coast, 1939-50
Much has been written and assumed about the impact of World War II on the political consciousness of African soldiers. It has been stated that as a result of their military service the veterans developed a new political awareness, and that consequently they played a singnificant rôle in the nascent nationalist movements of the post-war period. This argument has been presented more persuasively for East Africa, although some of the evidence produc…
An Outline History of Photography in Africa to ca. 1940
Photographs are attracting growing interest among Africanists. A bibliographical essay in the Cambridge History of Africa , vol. 7, drew attention to the value and availability of photographs of colonial Africa. The critical use of such documents has been discussed in this journal by Christraud Geary, and historical photographs have been a prominent feature of several recent publications. In May 1988 an international workshop at SOAS considered t…
Fighting Their Own War. South African Blacks and the First World War
Journal Article Fighting Their Own War. South African Blacks and the First World War Get access Fighting Their Own War. South African Blacks and the First World War, by Albert Grundlingh. Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1987. x +200 pp. £60 paperback. ISBN 0 86975 321 5. The Great War in Africa, 1914–1918, by Byron Farwell. Viking, Harmondsworth, 1987. 382 pp. £14.95 hardback. ISBN 0 670 80244 1. DAVID KILLINGRAY DAVID KILLINGRAY Goldsmiths' College, …
Khaki and Blue
A New ‘Imperial Disease’
La perennite et la rentabilite potentielle de l'investissement colonial europeen dependait en partie du combat contre les maladies imperiales, ces maladies importantes et transmissibles dont la presence exerce un effet deletere marque sur les ressources de l'Empire (Balfour et Scott). L'A. decrit la maniere dont l'epidemie de grippe de 1917-1918 s'est diffusee dans l'Empire Britannique et les reactions de l'administration coloniale et des communa…
The empire resources development committee and West Africa 1916–20
Demobilization in British and French Africa at the End of the First World War
This article reconsiders important aspects of African participation in the First World War, both in Europe and in Africa itself, as part of the British and French empires. More specifically, it explores demobilization at the end of the war in comparison with that process in Europe, paying close attention to the particularities of the colonial context. The article argues that, although French and British Africa were integrated significantly into t…
A Good West Indian, a Good African, and, in Short, a Good Britisher’
From the late eighteenth century onwards the majority of the inhabitants of the expanding British overseas empire were increasingly non-Europeans. Racial and ethnic discrimination was at the heart of British imperial governance, in the black Atlantic world shaped by a long history of slave-holding and then the growth of pseudo-scientific racial ideas in the nineteenth century. Whites rarely perceived the black and brown subjects they ruled as bei…
African voices from two world wars
Hundreds of thousands of African soldiers and labourers served in colonial armies during the two World Wars. Most were non-literate and there are relatively few first-hand records of their experiences. Using oral evidence, soldiers' letters and official reports, this article allows the African voice to describe the role of individual men as they enlisted, or were conscripted; the period of initial training; the encounter with new forms of clothin…
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919 in the British Caribbean
The influenza pandemic swept through the Caribbean during the period October 1918 to March 1919 and resulted in c.100,000 deaths. This article focuses on the British possessions and is based principally on official reports and the local press. It looks at how the virus entered and spread through the region, the possible reasons for variations in levels of morbidity and mortality between islands, popular responses to the infection, and the mainly …
The Mutiny of the West African Regiment in the Gold Coast, 1901
Khaki and Blue
Repercussions of World War I in the Gold Coast
Although on the periphery of the war Gold Coast resources and manpower were mobilized for the imperial war effort. The educated élite and many traditional rulers were loyal and internal conditions, despite the withdrawal of personnel and troops, generally peaceful. Small-scale disturbances occasioned by the war occurred, the most serious in the Northern Territories. The direction and pattern of Gold Coast external trade changed; exports, with the…
Africa
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The Idea of a British Imperial African Army
Britain maintained small colonial armed forces in the African territories for internal security and local defence. In four periods of international crisis, when the British Empire was faced with a shortage of military manpower, it was proposed that African troops be used in imperial roles outside Africa. These proposals were closely related to the increasing opposition by India to the Indian Army being used for imperial defence in Asia and the Mi…
Beasts of Burden
The empire resources development committee and West Africa 1916–20
Military and Labour Recruitment in the Gold Coast During the Second World War
During the Second World War the British West African colonies supplied raw materials and manpower for the war effort. The small peacetime army of the Gold Coast increased to nearly 70,000 men, including technical and service corps, and was used in overseas campaigns. Most soldiers were drawn from the supposed martial peoples of the Northern Territories but recruiting was extended to Asante and the south in mid-1940. Although formal conscription w…
The Mutiny of the West African Regiment in the Gold Coast, 1901
Soldiers, Ex-Servicemen, and Politics in the Gold Coast, 1939-50
Much has been written and assumed about the impact of World War II on the political consciousness of African soldiers. It has been stated that as a result of their military service the veterans developed a new political awareness, and that consequently they played a singnificant rôle in the nascent nationalist movements of the post-war period. This argument has been presented more persuasively for East Africa, although some of the evidence produc…
A Swift Agent of Government’
In the inter-war years one major role for the Royal Air Force was imperial defence. The Air Staff further argued that air power, used in substitution for the Army, would provide a more economical and effective means of policing and subjugating unrest in the remoter and more inaccessible areas of the colonial empire in Asia and Africa. The first successful major operation by the R.A.F. in Somaliland in 1920 encouraged the extension of air policing…
Books
The Black experience in the United States Linda O. McMurry, Recorder of the Black Experience: A Biography of Monroe Nathan Work, Louisiana State University Press, 1985, 154 pp., £19.00 cloth. Paul Kleppner, Chicago Divided: The Making of a Black Mayor, Northern Illinois University Press, 1985, 313 pp., £28.00 cloth, £11.40 p.b. The Atlantic slave trade Edward Reynolds, Stand the Storm. A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Allison & Busby, Londo…
A History of Nigeria
Journal Article A History of Nigeria Get access A History of Nigeria, by Elizabeth Isichei. Longman: London, 1983. xix+517 pp. £22 hardback, £8.95 paperback. Ropes of Sand: Studies in Igbo History and Culture, by Adiele Afigbo. Ibadan and London: University Press Limited and Oxford University Press, 1981 [ 1984]. xii+387 pp. £16 cloth cover. DAVID KILLINGRAY DAVID KILLINGRAY Goldsmiths' College, University of London Search for other works by this…
Labour Mobilisation in British Colonial Africa for the War Effort, 1939–46
Soldiers fight battles but civilian labour is required to supply the war machine and sustain an army in the field.1 Nineteenth-century military campaigns in tropical Africa relied on large numbers of porters and labourers to carry munitions and food to the front line.2 During the First World War well over 1 million carriers were employed in various theatres, particularly in East Africa, where conscription was widely used and conditions were harsh…
Africa and the Second World War
Historical Atlas of Africa
Journal Article Historical Atlas of Africa Get access Historical Atlas of Africa, General Editors J. F. Ade Ajayi and Michael Crowder. Longman: Harlow and Nigeria, 1985. 72 plates. £45, ISBN 0 582 64335 X, £17 Nigerian student edition, ISBN 0 582 643341. DAVID KILLINGRAY DAVID KILLINGRAY Goldsmiths' College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 85, Issue 339, April 1…
The Maintenance of Law and Order in British Colonial Africa
Journal Article THE MAINTENANCE OF LAW AND ORDER IN BRITISH COLONIAL AFRICA Get access DAVID KILLINGRAY DAVID KILLINGRAY The author teaches history at Goldsmith's College, University of London. Different versions of this paper have been discussed at seminars in London, Liverpool and East Lansing, and the author is grateful to friends and colleagues for their comments. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Africa…
Book Notes
Journal Article BOOK NOTES Get access African Studies. Papers presented at a colloquium at the British Library. British Library Occasional Papers No. 6, edited by Ilse Sternberg and Patricia M. Larby. British Library and SCOLMA, 1986. 332PP. £17.95. ISBN 0-7123-0050-3. DAVID KILLINGRAY DAVID KILLINGRAY Goldsmiths' CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 85, Issue 341, October …
Military and Labour Policies in the Gold Coast During the First World War
Increasingly the First World War is being recognised by historians of Africa as a significant watershed in recent African history. During the war the material and manpower resources of the continent were mobilised on a hitherto unparalleled scale, while the colonial economies were brought further under the control of the metropolitan powers and their commercial interests. Throughout Africa, manpower for the war was organised on the largest scale …
Third World Relations
Third World Relations
Race and rank in the British army in the twentieth century
1987). Race and rank in the British army in the twentieth century. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 276-290
Africa and the Second World War
The State and Rural Class Formation in Ghana
Africa and the Second World War
Fighting Their Own War. South African Blacks and the First World War
Journal Article Fighting Their Own War. South African Blacks and the First World War Get access Fighting Their Own War. South African Blacks and the First World War, by Albert Grundlingh. Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1987. x +200 pp. £60 paperback. ISBN 0 86975 321 5. The Great War in Africa, 1914–1918, by Byron Farwell. Viking, Harmondsworth, 1987. 382 pp. £14.95 hardback. ISBN 0 670 80244 1. DAVID KILLINGRAY DAVID KILLINGRAY Goldsmiths' College, …
Colonial Warfare in West Africa, 1870–1914
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