Overview
- Extends recent attention on modern policing history to World War One
- Offers a global history of European and extra European police forces involved in the conflict, taking a wide geographical and chronological perspective
- Analyses underlying transformations in police organisation, identity and practices across the period
Part of the book series: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence (WHCCV)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Police Forces at the Front
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Police Forces on the Home Front
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Policing Far from the War? The Empires and the Neutrals
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About this book
This book offers a global history of civilian, military and gendarmerie-style policing around the First World War. Whilst many aspects of the Great War have been revisited in light of the centenary, and in spite of the recent growth of modern policing history, the role and fate of police forces in the conflict has been largely forgotten. Yet the war affected all European and extra-European police forces. Despite their diversity, all were confronted with transnational factors and forms of disorder, and suffered generally from mass-conscription. During the conflict, societies and states were faced with a crisis situation of unprecedented magnitude with mass mechanised killing on the battle field, and starvation, occupation, destruction, and in some cases even revolution, on the home front. Based on a wide geographical and chronological scope – from the late nineteenth century to the interwar years – this collection of essays explores the policing of European belligerent countries, alongside their empires, and neutral countries. The book’s approach crosses traditional boundaries between neutral and belligerent nations, centres and peripheries, and frontline and rear areas. It focuses on the involvement and wartime transformations of these law-enforcement forces, thus highlighting underlying changes in police organisation, identity and practices across this period.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jonas Campion is Visiting Lecturer at UCLouvain, Belgium, Assistant Lecturer at the University of Lille, France, and Researcher at the IRHIS institute, France.
Laurent López is Research and Teaching Fellow at the French Defence History Service, Vincennes, France.
Guillaume Payen is Lecturer at Sorbonne University and Researcher at the Centre d’Histoire du XIXè Siècle, France.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: European Police Forces and Law Enforcement in the First World War
Editors: Jonas Campion, Laurent López, Guillaume Payen
Series Title: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26102-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26101-6Published: 19 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26104-7Published: 19 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26102-3Published: 08 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2730-9630
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 371
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Modern Europe, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Military, Imperialism and Colonialism, Crime and Society