The Great British Bobby
A history of British policing from 1829 to the present
$40.18
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
31 May 2010
Summary
The Victorians called him ‘Bobby’ after Sir Robert Peel, the Home Secretary who created the Metropolitan Police in 1829. The generations that followed came to regard the force in which he served as ‘the best police in the world’. If twenty-first century observers sometimes take a more jaundiced view of his efforts, the blue-helmeted, unarmed policeman remains an icon of Britishness, and a symbol of the relatively peaceful nature of our social evolution.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781849161978 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1849161976 |
| Author: | Clive Emsley |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 31 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 290g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 24mm |
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The doyen of police history has produced a well-informed, thoughtful account of the British police over some 200 years that is a pleasure to read’ BBC History Magazine.
Informative jaunt through the history of the modern bobby … worth reading’ Daily Telegraph. * Daily Telegraph *A thoroughly learned, clear-eyed and engaging read’ Sunday Times. * Sunday Times *The doyen of police history has produced a well-informed, thoughtful account of the British police over some 200 years that is a pleasure to read’ BBC History Magazine. * BBC History Magazine *Exhaustively researched account … fascinating’ Brian Paddick, Guardian. * Guardian *
About The Author
Clive Emsley
Clive Emsley is co-director of the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research at the Open University and president of the International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice.
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