The Rise of Modern Police and the European State System from Metternich to the Second World War

A comprehensive history of Continental police systems, in the context of political and diplomatic history.

Hsi-Huey Liang (Author)

9780521430227, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 November 1992

362 pages
23.7 x 16.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.675 kg

"This admirably researched, cogently developed, and broadly focused study deserves the attention of all historians of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe." Jonathan W. Daly, Journal of Modern History

The Rise of the Modern Police and the European State System from Metternich to the Second World War re-examines the diplomatic history of Europe from the 1820s to World War II as a succession of mounting police problems linking the countries of the Continent through their growing dependency on one another for domestic order, security, and social progress. It culminates in the clash between the movement toward international police collaboration and the alternative of Continental police hegemony by one power, as attempted by Nazi Germany between the late 1930s and 1945. This book is the first comprehensive history of Continental police systems, especially in the context of political and diplomatic history.

Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction: How do we define modern police?
1. Five national police styles in response to popular unrest in the nineteenth century
2. Modern police and the conduct of foreign policy: the French police and the recovery of France after 1871
3. International police collaboration from the 1870s to 1914
4. War and revolution, 1914–1922
5. The threat of totalitarianism: Nazi Germany's bid for European hegemony
Epilogue
List of archival
Index.

Subject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], European history [HBJD]