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The English police: a political and social history

01 January 1991

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The English police: a political and social history
libdoc March=1992

Author: Emsley, Clive
Publisher: Harvester Wheatsheaf 1991, Biographical note, Index

Keywords: Police history,

Contents:-

1. Policing before the police
2. The coming of the police
3. A police for Victorian England
4. Policing in Victorian England
5. Professionalisation, politics and public order
6. War, `mutiny', and peace
7. Policing and twentieth century England
8. From local Bobby to state lacky?
9. A life in the force
10. The policeman as worker
Conclusion: Constabulary, gendarmerie and Haute Police

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