The Rise of Modern Police and the European State System from Metternich to the Second World War

by Hsi-Huey Liang

• ISBN13: 9780521522878
• ISBN10: 0521522870
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-11
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Rise of the Modern Police and the European State System from Metternich to the Second World War re-examines the diplomatic history of Europe from the 1820s to World War II as a succession of mounting police problems linking the countries of the Continent through their growing dependency on one another for domestic order, security, and social progress. It culminates in the clash between movement toward international police collaboration and the alternative of Continental police hegemony by one power, as attempted by Nazi Germany between the late 1930s and 1945. This book is the first comprehensive history of Continental police systems, especially in the context of political and diplomatic history.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations used in footnotes	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction: How do we define modern police?	1	(1)
Definitions in police literature	1	(2)
The time of modern police: A historian's definition	3	(7)
Police terminology	10	(4)
Police methods	14	(4)
Five national police styles in response to popular unrest in the nineteenth century	18	(65)
The Austrian police: The Metternich system and its decline after 1848	18	(16)
The Swiss police: A public service to Europe?	34	(8)
The French police: Defense du territoire, the key to controlled change	42	(20)
The police in Germany. Prussia and the idea of ``Burgfrieden''	62	(14)
The Russian police and Europe	76	(7)
Modern police and the conduct of foreign policy. The French police and the recovery of France after 1871	83	(68)
Foreign responses to the French debacle and the Paris Commune	83	(6)
The French police and the recovery of France	89	(15)
Bismarck's anti-Socialist law and German police activities in Switzerland, 1878--90	104	(8)
Franco-Russian police relations, 1872--81	112	(22)
The breakdown in German--Swiss collaboration against the SPD	134	(6)
Gambetta, Boulanger, Schnaebele and the Franco-Russian alliance	140	(11)
International police collaboration from the 1870s to 1914 Professional contacts between police administrations	151	(31)
The Monaco Conference, 1914	153	(2)
International collaboration in political police work: The Rome Conference, 1898	155	(14)
The International Peace Conference at The Hague, 1899	169	(2)
Plans for a reactionary police league, 1901--4	171	(3)
The European response to the Russian revolution of 1905	174	(8)
War and revolution, 1914--1922	182	(55)
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, 1914	182	(7)
The outbreak of the First World War	189	(24)
Revolutions	213	(23)
A concluding remark	236	(1)
The threat of totalitarianism. Nazi Germany's bid for European hegemony	237	(72)
The prospects of democratization and international police collaboration after the war	237	(7)
The Nazi dictatorship	244	(22)
The fall of the Sudetenland and the failure of collective police security	266	(24)
The beginning of the Second World War	290	(19)
Epilogue	309	(16)
List of archival files consulted	325	(10)
Index	335