Policing interwar Europe : continuity, change and crisis, 1918-40 / edited by Gerald Blaney, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blaney, Gerald, 1972-

Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police--Europe--History.

Police.

History.

Europe--Politics and government--1918-1945.

Europe.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xi, 240 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

The convulsions of the First World War left considerable economic, social and political instability in their wake, bringing with them significant challenges to the various regimes of Interwar Europe. As a result, great emphasis was placed on the need to maintain order as well as to reform the apparatus of the state to meet the demands and expectations of their populations. One of the most crucial institutions for achieving these aims was the police, as their loyalty to a regime, as well as their commitment to its ideology and policies, could prove instrumental in the success of that regime's objectives and, ultimately, its survival. Policing Interwar Europe contains studies of ten different countries facing similar problems in distinct circumstances, and provides an unique opportunity for comparing how the various regimes of the period attempted to cope with the issues of policing, protest and public order.

Contents:

Introduction: Policing Interwar Europe / Gerald Blaney, Jr 1

1 The Difficult Construction of a 'Republican' Police: The Experience of the French Third Republic / Jean-Marc Berliere 14

A Republican police? 14

Caught between the 'municipal principle' and the temptation to centralize 16

Defending the Republic 19

Keeping a Republican order or Republican order-keeping? 20

The only police force a democracy can own up to? 22

The police and the Third Republic: a case of successful acculturation? 24

2 Keeping Order in Republican Spain, 1931-36 / Gerald Blaney, Jr 31

Assessing Republican power 32

Reforming the police, 1931-33 36

A Republican failure?: the thorny issue of police violence 42

'Rectifying' reforms: the governments of the Center-Right 49

Swimming against the current?: the Popular Front, February-July 1936 52

3 Prussian Police Reform and the Modernization of the Academy Classroom: The Advent of the German Police Training Film, 1919-20 / Sara F. Hall 69

Reform through re-education 70

A partisan journalistic view 73

In the classroom 75

Introducing the police training film 77

Criminal investigation and technology 78

Standardization and mobility 82

The latest and the best 84

4 Guardians of the Republic? Portugal's Guarda Nacional Republicana and the Politicians during the 'New Old Republic', 1919-22 / Stewart Lloyd-Jones, Diego Palacios Cerezales 90

The creation of the GNR 91

Portugal's civil war and its consequences 95

Aftermath 103

5 Mussolini's Policemen, 1922-43 / Jonathan Dunnage 112

The creation of a police force at the service of the Fascist regime 114

The 'Fascistization' of policemen 120

The case of Riccardo Secreti 126

6 Police, Republic and Nation: The Czechoslovak State Police and the Building of a Multinational Democracy, 1918-25 / Samuel Ronsin 136

The State Police and the new Republic, October 1918-March 1920 138

Creating a 'national police': the deployment of the State Police 141

Recruitment practices of the State Police 145

7 Police and Policing under the Second Polish Republic, 1918-39 / Andrzej Misiuk 159

The troubled birth of the Polish Republic, 1918-26 160

The Sanacja regime, 1926-39 165

Epilogue: defending Poland 169

8 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Revisited: Policing Interwar Bulgaria / Dimcho N. Dimov 172

Historical background 172

War crises, internal security and public order 175

The rule of the democratic alliance, 1923-31 178

The People's Bloc government, 1931-34 181

The coup d'etat of 19 May 1934 185

The 'monarcho-fascist' rule of Boris III, 1935-39 186

9 'Turbulent Times': The Dutch Police Between the Two World Wars / Jos Smeets 192

The threat of revolution and the Dutch police 192

Building barricades against revolution: the Central Intelligence Bureau, the Politietroepen and the National Reserve 196

The debate over the nature and the reform of the Dutch police 198

The economic crisis of 1929 and its repercussions 202

The mutiny on the HMS Seven Provinces and the Jordaan uprising of 1934 203

The decree on the State Police and the Donner Commission 205

The Oss affair of 1938 207

10 Traffic, Telephones and Police Boxes: The Deterioration of Beat Policing in Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester Between the World Wars / Joanne Klein 215

Pressures on beat policing before the First World War 216

Police strikes of 1918 and 1919 217

The 1919 Police Act 219

Traffic burdens 220

Rising public expectations of public services 223

New laws and paperwork 224

Telephones and police boxes 225

Declining police morale 228

New internal police rivalries 229.

Notes:

"Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1403992649

OCLC:

70335429

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