Table of Contents

Introduction


Chapter 1: The Surveillance of Indian Anticolonialists in Britain,
France, and Germany, 1905-1914

Chapter 2: Surveillance under Wartime Conditions and
the German-Anticolonialist Alliance, 1914-1918

Chapter 3: The Expansion of the French Colonial Surveillance Network
in Western Europe, 1918-1925

Chapter 4: New Alliances Against Anticolonialism? The Scope of
British Police Cooperation with French and German Authorities,
1918-1925

Chapter 5: The League Against Imperialism Years, 1926-1933

Chapter 6: Nazi Rule and Transnational Anticolonialism
in Western Europe, 1933-1945

Epilogue and Conclusion

Appendix: Some Thoughts on Sources

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Daniel Brückenhaus is Assistant Professor of History at Beloit College.

Reviews

"Daniel Brückenhaus' new monographâcontains all the exciting elements of new international history. Its archival span covers several countries across four continents, its source base is multilingual and it features a wide and diverse cast of characters...This work is...a contribution to the growing historiography on the sites and spaces of transimperial and transnational radical politics in the twentieth century. This intervention is both important
and timely because it allows us to understand how practices of anticolonial activism were shaped by, and in turn influenced, the evolving practices of policing and surveillance." -- Zaib un Nisa Aziz, Journal of
Colonialism and Colonial History
"In Policing Transnational Protest, Daniel Brückenhaus tracks how Britain and France constructed transnational policing practices and institutions in the first half of the twentieth century in order to monitor and combat anti-imperial movements that were, themselves, increasingly international...Carefully argued, and based on prodigious research in British, French, German, and Indian archives, this important but restrained book is a model of how
to conceptualize and write transnational history. It deserves a wide readership." -- Susan Pedersen, American Historical Review
"In addition to looking beyond state barriers, [t]his work significantly moves from vertical analysis, between colonial states and their colonies, to horizontal analysis, assessing the movement of anti-colonial nationalists between European states, and the work of the state and its institutions across those same borders in surveilling and constraining them." -- Kyle Matthews, Critical Studies on Terrorism
"Brückenhaus's transnational orientation illuminates important dynamics of anticolonialism and imperial surveillance that would be largely invisible if considered within the framework of a single imperial story... It should thus be of interest to a wide variety of scholars of modern Europe interested in the transnational dimensions of the history of imperialism, anticolonialism, policing, and political culture." -- Elun T. Gabriel, Journal of Modern
History
"Brückenhaus constructs an excellent history of anti-colonialism in Europe, using both police documents and correspondence seized by the police."--J. C. Berg, CHOICE
"Daniel Brückenhaus has given us a gripping account of the cat-and-mouse game between surveillance and anticolonial activists in early twentieth-century Europe. Full of beguiling characters, the book manages to read like a detective story and at the same to redirect the way future scholars will think about the histories of police and of imperialism."--Michael Goebel, Freie Universität Berlin
"Policing Transnational Protest transforms our understanding of transnational anticolonial protest by uncovering the relationship between expanding police networks and the border crossings of anticolonial radicals. An outstanding work of transnational history, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in anticolonial protest or the surveillance regimes that remain such a pervasive force in our age."--Nico Slate, Carnegie Mellon University
"Daniel Brückenhaus' fascinating and empirically well-grounded study provides an original transnational perspective on the endeavors of anticolonial activists in Europe during the first part of the twentieth century and offers a thorough analysis of the reactions they triggered among European governments. While this in itself would be a valuable contribution to historiography, Brückenhaus also deftly uses his exploration of British, French, and German
'counter-insurgency' efforts to elucidate our own post-9/11 experience. Most importantly, he reminds us that a strong emphasis on security produced, and continues to produce, justified unease about the
curtailment of civil liberties."--Harald Fischer-Tiné, ETH-Zurich