Crime, Disorder, and the Risorgimento
The Politics of Policing in Bologna
Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture;
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 4 July 2002
- ISBN 9780521893817
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 229x152x17 mm
- Weight 450 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 b/w illus. 2 maps 2 tables 0
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Short description:
This 1994 book is a close examination of the papal police in the city and province of Bologna before Italian unification.
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This 1994 book provides a meticulous examination of the ideology, structure, and functions of papal police as they operated in the city and province of Bologna in the period before Italian unity. In doing so, it also offers an important new perspective on the Risorgimento in the region. The author argues that after the Restoration the papal government maintained much of Napoleon's police apparatus in order to enhance its absolute power as an administrative monarchy; but the new police soon found themselves incapable of dealing effectively with the prevailing problems of the day, including political conspiracy, rampant unemployment, widespread poverty, and endemic crime in city and countryside alike. In 1828 and 1847 the papal government was forced to allow Bologna's elites to arm themselves in posse-style 'citizen patrols'. On each occasion the patrols became a rallying point of reform and, eventually, revolution.
"Hughes's work constitutes an important contribution to understanding the process of formation and consolidation of the modern police force..." Journal of Modern History
Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. Setting the stage: Bologna, the ancien regime, and Napoleon; 2. Consalvi's troops; 3. Functions and failures; 4. Public order and the revolution of 1831; 5. Reform and failure; 6. Reform and revolution; 7. The search for stability and the turn to Piedmont; 8. Epilogue: risorgimento, freedom, and repression; 9. Conclusion.
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