Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Professor of History Clive Emsley
Oxford University Press (UK)
9780198207986
0-19-820798-0

This book provides the first serious look at the origins and development of the role of soldier-policemen: the gendarmeries of nineteenth-century Europe. Looking at how the model was first developed in.

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France and then exported across Europe, Emsley argues that gendarmes played a significant role in establishing the state, particularly in rural areas.