Martin Thomas is professor of imperial history and director of the Centre for Histories of Violence and Conflict at the University of Exeter. A fellow of the Leverhulme Trust and the Independent Social Research Foundation, he is the author of Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 19181940; Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and the Roads from Empire; and other books.
"""A substantial contribution to the literature of imperialism and colonialism."" * Kirkus Reviews *"