| Description |
xiii, 345 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: How do we define modern police? Definitions in police literature. The time of modern police: A historian's definition. Police terminology. Police methods -- 1. Five national police styles in response to popular unrest in the nineteenth century. The Austrian police: The Metternich system and its decline after 1848. The Swiss police: A public service to Europe? The French police: Defense du territoire, the key to controlled change. The police in Germany. Prussia and the idea of "Burgfrieden" The Russian police and Europe -- 2. Modern police and the conduct of foreign policy. The French police and the recovery of France after 1871. Foreign responses to the French debacle and the Paris Commune. The French police and the recovery of France. Bismarck's anti-Socialist law and German police activities in Switzerland, 1878-90. Franco-Russian police relations, 1872-81. The breakdown in German-Swiss collaboration against the SPD |
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Gambetta, Boulanger, Schnaebele and the Franco-Russian alliance -- 3. International police collaboration from the 1870s to 1914. Professional contacts between police administrations. The Monaco Conference, 1914. International collaboration in political police work: The Rome Conference, 1898. The International Peace Conference at The Hague, 1899. Plans for a reactionary police league, 1901-4. The European response to the Russian revolution of 1905 -- 4. War and revolution, 1914-1922. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, 1914. The outbreak of the First World War. Revolutions. A concluding remark -- 5. The threat of totalitarianism. Nazi Germany's bid for European hegemony. The prospects of democratization and international police collaboration after the war. The Nazi dictatorship. The fall of the Sudetenland and the failure of collective police security. The beginning of the Second World War |
| Notes |
Paperback edition published 2002 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Police -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
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Police -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Politics and government -- 1815-1871. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045745
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Europe -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045747
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Europe -- Politics and government -- 1918-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045749
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| LC no. |
92017111 |
| ISBN |
0521430224 |
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0521522870 (paperback) |
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