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  • A Short History of Police and Policing

    by Clive Emsley ...
    The police are constantly under scrutiny. They are criticized for failings, praised for successes, and hailed as heroes for their sacrifices. Starting from the premise that every society has norms and ways of dealing with transgressors, A Short History of Police and Policing traces the evolution of the multiple forms of 'policing' that existed in the past. It examines the historical development of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Exporting British Policing During the Second World War

    Policing Soldiers and Civilians

    by Prof. Clive Emsley ...
    Exporting British Policing is a comprehensive study of British military policing in liberated Europe during the Second World War. Preventing and detecting thefts, receiving and profiteering together with the maintenance of order in its broadest sense are, in the peacetime world, generally confided to the police. However, the Second World War witnessed the use of civilian police to create a ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Police Detectives in History, 1750–1950

    by Clive Emsley ...
    While the history of the uniformed police has prompted considerable research, the historical study of police detectives has been largely neglected; confined for the most part to a chapter or a brief mention in books dealing with the development of the police in general. The collection redresses this imbalance. Investigating themes central to the history of detection, such as the inchoate ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The English Police

    A Political and Social History

    by Clive Emsley ...
    A comprehensive history of policing from the eighteenth century onwards, which draws on largely unused police archives. Clive Emsley addresses all the major issues of debate; he explores the impact of legislation and policy at both national and local levels, and considers the claim that the English police were non-political and free from political control. In the final section, he looks at the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Crime and Society in Twentieth Century England

    by Clive Emsley ...
    Crime and Society in Twentieth-Century England traces the broad pattern of criminal offending over a hundred year period that experienced unprecedented levels of upheaval and change. This period included two world wars, the end of the British Empire, significant shifts in both gender relations and ethnic mix and a decline in the power of the economy.In this new textbook, Professor Clive Emsley ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Napoleon

    Conquest, Reform and Reorganisation

    by Clive Emsley ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    Napoleon had a profound impact on the development of both France and Europe, and his career had repercussions across the wider world. His career had all the elements of a classical tragedy: having begun with spectacular military and civil achievements, it ended in exile on the tiny Atlantic island of St Helena.Almost two centuries after Napoleon’s death, historians continue to argue about his aims ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Britain and the French Revolution

    by Clive Emsley ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    The French Revolution catapulted Europe into a new period of political upheaval, social change, and into the modern era.This book provides a concise introduction to the impact of the French Revolution on Britain and to the ways in which this impact has been assessed by historians.The book is organised thematically. It begins with a survey of the ideological debate sparked off by the Revolution ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Napoleonic Europe

    by Clive Emsley ...
    Series series Longman Companions To History
    The impact of Napoleon on France and on Europe was immediate and enduring. He dominated his age as his armies dominated the continent; and no European country was untouched, or unchanged, by the events of these turbulent years. Keeping one's bearings geographically, militarily, politically and chronologically in the prevailing turmoil is no easy matter, even for the specialist, and Clive Emsley's ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Theories and Origins of the Modern Police

    Edited by Clive Emsley ...
    Series series The History of Policing
    This volume is the first of four that will provide some of the most significant, English-language articles on the historical development of the police institution. The articles included in this volume are broadly of two kinds. The first introduce some of the theoretical outlines that have been suggested for the origins and development of modern police institutions across Europe. The second explore ... Read more

    $420.00 USD

  • Comparative Histories of Crime

    Edited by Barry Godfrey, Clive Emsley, Graeme Dunstall ...
    This book aims to both reflect and take forward current thinking on comparative and cross-national and cross-cultural aspects of the history of crime. Its content is wide-ranging: some chapters discuss the value of comparative approaches in aiding understanding of comparative history, and providing research directions for the future; others address substantive issues and topics that will be of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Crime and Society in England, 1750–1900

    by Clive Emsley ...
    Series series Themes In British Social History
    Ranging from the middle of the eighteenth through to the end of the nineteenth century, Crime and Society in England, 1750–1900 explores the developments in policing, the courts and the penal system as England became increasingly industrialised and urbanised. Through a consideration of the difficulty of defining crime, the book presents criminal behaviour as being intrinsically tied to historical ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    A Short History of Police and Policing

    by Clive Emsley ...
    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    35 min

    The police are constantly under scrutiny. They are criticized for failings, praised for successes, and hailed as heroes for their sacrifices. Starting from the premise that every society has norms and ways of dealing with transgressors, A Short History of Police and Policing traces the evolution of the multiple forms of "policing" that existed in the past. It examines the historical development of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook