In Thrall to Political Change: Police and Gendarmerie in France

by Malcolm Anderson

In Thrall to Political Change is the first history of the French police and gendarmerie, for the period since the establishment of a democratic Republican regime in 1870 down to the present day. Based on archival material and on the vast amount of recent research by French scholars on the subject, it covers dramatic and often harrowing developments--anarchist and communist subversion, violent demonstrations and strikes, fascist threats, war and occupation,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199693641
• ISBN13: 9780199693641
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.2"