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Policing morals : the Metropolitan Police and the Home Office, 1870-1914
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Petrow, Stefan, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Police--History--England--London.
- Police.
- Social reformers--History--London--England.
- Social reformers.
- London (England)--Moral conditions.
- London (England).
- London (England)--History--1800-1950.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 343 p.)
- Other Title:
- Policing morals
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A study of the Metropolitan Police from 1870-1914, when it became a modern professional police force. The author focuses on what moral reformers claimed were serious threats to social order in late-Victorian and Edwardian London, and examines the force's policing of these contentious areas.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780191674976 (ebook) :
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