{"product_id":"imperial-gallows-murder-violence-and-the-death-penalty-in-british-colonial-africa-c-1915-60-paperback","title":"Imperial Gallows: Murder, Violence and the Death Penalty in British Colonial Africa, c.1915-60 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStacey Hynd\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot just a method of crime control or individual punishment in Britain's African territories, the death penalty was an integral aspect of colonial networks of power and violence. \u003ci\u003eImperial Gallows\u003c\/i\u003e analyses capital trials from Kenya, Nyasaland and the Gold Coast to explore the social tensions that fueled murder among colonised populations, and how colonial legal cultures and landscapes of political authority shaped sentencing and mercy. It demonstrates how ideas of race, ethnicity, gender and 'civilization' could both spare and condemn Africans convicted of murder in colonial courts, and also how Africans could either appropriate or resist such colonial legal discourses in their trials and petitions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, Stacey Hynd follows the whole process of capital punishment from the identification of a murder victim to trial and conviction, through the process of mercy and sentencing onto death row and execution. The scandals that erupted over the death penalty, from botched executions and moral panics over ritual murder, to the hanging of anti-colonial rebels for 'terrorist' and emergency offences, provide significant insights into the shifting moral and political economies of colonial violence. This monograph contextualises the death penalty within the wider penal systems and coercive networks of British colonial Africa to highlight the shifting targets of the imperial gallows against rebels, robbers or domestic murderers. \u003ci\u003eImperial Gallows\u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates that while hangings were key elements of colonial iconography in British Africa, symbolically loaded events that demonstrated imperial power and authority, they also reveal the limits of that power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStacey Hynd \u003c\/b\u003eis Senior Lecturer in African History at the University of Exeter, UK. Her publications include articles in \u003ci\u003eJournal of African History, International Journal of Southern African Studies, Journal of Eastern African Studies, Journal of West African History\u003c\/i\u003e, amongst others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 29, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48170072015107,"sku":"9781350302679","price":111.35,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/9310\/7359\/files\/4xSJqphCTb9781350302679.webp?v=1779141050","url":"https:\/\/annizon.com\/en-ca\/products\/imperial-gallows-murder-violence-and-the-death-penalty-in-british-colonial-africa-c-1915-60-paperback","provider":"annizon.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}