Policing Interwar Europe

In the convulsive environment that followed World War I and the Russian Revolution, the issues of policing and public order were of primary importance to the various governments of Interwar Europe. The book features original research on 10 different countries and will be vitally useful for students and academics of 20th century Europe.

JEAN-MARC BERLIERE Professor of Contemporary History, University of Bourgogne, France GERALD BLANEY JR. Researcher in Contemporary Spanish History in the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK DIMCHO DIMOV PhD candidate, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria JONATHAN DUNNAGE Senior Lecturer in Italian, University of Wales, Swansea, UK SARA F. HALL Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA JOANNE KLEIN Associate Professor of History, Boise State University, Idaho, USA STEWART LLOYD-JONES Director of the Contemporary Portuguese Politics and History Research Centre (CPHRC), University of Glasgow/ICS-University of Lisbon ANDRZEJ MISIUK Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Law and Administration, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland DIEGO PALACIOS CEREZALES Visiting Researcher in the Social Sciences Institute, University of Lisbon SAMUEL RONSIN PhD graduate, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France JOS SMEETS Faculty of Law, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands

'This is a fascinating and important collection. Police forces can easily be torn between their role as protector of the state and protector of the citizen - and, perhaps, this was never more the case than in Europe during the inter-war period. The essays here draw attention to the complexities within police institutions, the rivalries between such institutions, and their relationships with states and citizens. Geographically, the range is impressive, with refreshing explorations of central as well as western Europe. The collection will be of value far beyond historians of crime, public order and policing and is of direct relevance to anyone interested broadly in the consolidation and maintenance of state authority.' - Professor Clive Emsley, Director of the European Centre for the Study of Policing, The Open University, UK

'An invaluable book for the serious student of international policing.' - Police History Society