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Policing Interwar Europe

Continuity, Change and Crisis, 1918-40

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  1. Gerald Blaney

    1. London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Policing Interwar Europe

    • Gerald Blaney Jr
    Pages 1-13

  3. The Difficult Construction of a ‘Republican’ Police: The French Third Republic

    • Jean-Marc Berlière
    Pages 14-30

  4. Keeping Order in Republican Spain, 1931–36

    • Gerald Blaney Jr
    Pages 31-68

  5. Prussian Police Reform and the Modernization of the Academy Classroom: The Advent of the German Police Training Film, 1919–20

    • Sara F. Hall
    Pages 69-89

  6. Guardians of the Republic?: Portugal’s Guarda Nacional Republicana and the Politicians During the ‘New Old Republic’, 1919–22

    • Stewart Lloyd-Jones, Diego Palacios Cerezales
    Pages 90-111

  7. Mussolini’s Policemen, 1926–43

    • Jonathan Dunnage
    Pages 112-135

  8. Police, Republic and Nation: The Czechoslovak State Police and the Building of a Multinational Democracy, 1918–25

    • Samuel Ronsin
    Pages 136-158

  9. Police and Policing Under the Second Polish Republic, 1918–39

    • Andrzej Misiuk
    Pages 159-171

  10. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Revisited: Policing Interwar Bulgaria

    • Dimcho N. Dimov
    Pages 172-191

  11. Turbulent Times’: The Dutch Police Between the Two World Wars

    • Jos Smeets
    Pages 192-214

  12. Traffic, Telephones and Police Boxes: The Deterioration of Beat Policing in Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester Between the World Wars

    • Joanne Klein
    Pages 215-236

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 237-240
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About this book

In the convulsive environment that followed World War I and the Russian Revolution, the issues of policing and public order were of primary importance to the various governments of Interwar Europe. The book features original research on 10 different countries and will be vitally useful for students and academics of 20th century Europe.

Reviews

'This is a fascinating and important collection. Police forces can easily be torn between their role as protector of the state and protector of the citizen - and, perhaps, this was never more the case than in Europe during the inter-war period. The essays here draw attention to the complexities within police institutions, the rivalries between such institutions, and their relationships with states and citizens. Geographically, the range is impressive, with refreshing explorations of central as well as western Europe. The collection will be of value far beyond historians of crime, public order and policing and is of direct relevance to anyone interested broadly in the consolidation and maintenance of state authority.' - Professor Clive Emsley, Director of the European Centre for the Study of Policing, The Open University, UK

'An invaluable book for the serious student of international policing.' - Police History Society

Editors and Affiliations

  • London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

    Gerald Blaney

About the editor

JEAN-MARC BERLIERE Professor of Contemporary History, University of Bourgogne, France GERALD BLANEY JR. Researcher in Contemporary Spanish History in the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK DIMCHO DIMOV PhD candidate, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria JONATHAN DUNNAGE Senior Lecturer in Italian, University of Wales, Swansea, UK SARA F. HALL Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA JOANNE KLEIN Associate Professor of History, Boise State University, Idaho, USA STEWART LLOYD-JONES Director of the Contemporary Portuguese Politics and History Research Centre (CPHRC), University of Glasgow/ICS-University of Lisbon ANDRZEJ MISIUK Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Law and Administration, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland DIEGO PALACIOS CEREZALES Visiting Researcher in the Social Sciences Institute, University of Lisbon SAMUEL RONSIN PhD graduate, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France JOS SMEETS Faculty of Law, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Policing Interwar Europe

  • Book Subtitle: Continuity, Change and Crisis, 1918-40

  • Editors: Gerald Blaney

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230599864

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-9264-2Published: 28 November 2006

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59986-4Published: 28 November 2006

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 240

  • Topics: European History, Modern History, Political History

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