Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe - Couverture rigide

Emsley, Clive

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198207980 ISBN 13 : 9780198207986

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe The history of policing has been the subject of much interest and research. This text provides an academic exploration of the origins and development of the role of soldier-policemen - the gendarmeries of 19th-century Europe - examining how and why the model came to be exported from France. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The history of police and policing have been the subject of much interest and research in recent years, but this book provides the first serious academic exploration of the origins and development of the role of soldier-policemen: the gendarmeries of nineteenth-century Europe. The author presents a detailed account of the French Gendarmeries from the old regime up to the First World War, and looks at the reasons for how and why this model came to be exported across continental Europe in the wake of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic armies. In particular their role is examined within the differing national contexts of Italy, Germany and the Habsburg Empire. The gendarmeries, it is argued, played a significant role in establishing the state, particularly in rural areas. As the physical manifestation of the state, gendarmes carried the state's law and a promise of protection, whilst at the same time ensuring in turn that the state received its annual levies of conscripts and taxes This account fully explores how the organisation and style of nineteenth-century soldier-policing in France developed in such a way that it brought the idea of the state and the state's law to much of twentieth-century continental Europe.

Revue de presse :

... a superb synthesis of research and analysis. (H-France Book Reviews)

Emsley presents both a magisterial overview of the rise of the gendarmerie in France and a ground-breaking study of how this institution spread to the rest of Europe. (H-France Book Reviews)

... [Emsley's] compendious survey affords engaging glimpses of a small force that has had broad effects. (Eugen Webber, Times Literary Supplement)

... a book that abounds with anecdotes and illuminating quotations. (Eugen Webber, Times Literary Supplement)

This remarkable book is the fruit of extensive research in French, German, Italian and Austrian archives ... Thanks to its superb scholarship and graceful style, Emsley's book will be read for decades. (Choice)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0198207980
• ISBN 13: 9780198207986
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 300