Policing Interwar Europe: Continuity, Change and Crisis, 1918–40

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Policing Interwar Europe....Pages 1-13
The Difficult Construction of a ‘Republican’ Police: The French Third Republic....Pages 14-30
Keeping Order in Republican Spain, 1931–36....Pages 31-68
Prussian Police Reform and the Modernization of the Academy Classroom: The Advent of the German Police Training Film, 1919–20....Pages 69-89
Guardians of the Republic?: Portugal’s Guarda Nacional Republicana and the Politicians During the ‘New Old Republic’, 1919–22....Pages 90-111
Mussolini’s Policemen, 1926–43....Pages 112-135
Police, Republic and Nation: The Czechoslovak State Police and the Building of a Multinational Democracy, 1918–25....Pages 136-158
Police and Policing Under the Second Polish Republic, 1918–39....Pages 159-171
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Revisited: Policing Interwar Bulgaria....Pages 172-191
Turbulent Times’: The Dutch Police Between the Two World Wars....Pages 192-214
Traffic, Telephones and Police Boxes: The Deterioration of Beat Policing in Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester Between the World Wars....Pages 215-236
Back Matter....Pages 237-240