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Book Before the Bobbies

Download or read book Before the Bobbies written by Elaine A. Reynolds and published by Macmillan Pub Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work argues that police reform developed over decades, the work of local authorities motivated more by fears of property crime than radicalism or riots. This book also contends that modern policing emerged long before Scotland Yard. Local and national officials co-operated at many levels to provide policing for London, culminating in Sir Robert Peel's centralized Metropolitan Police in 1829. The early modern British state was thus more responsive to urban problems than previously has been acknowledged.

Book Before the Bobbies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elaine A. Reynolds
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 1998-06-17
  • ISBN : 1349145610
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Before the Bobbies written by Elaine A. Reynolds and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-06-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians, legal scholars, sociologists and crime readers will learn from this book that modern policing emerged long before Scotland Yard. Police reform developed over decades, the work of local authorities motivated more by fears of property crime than radicalism or riots. Local and national officials cooperated at many levels to provide relatively effective policing for London, culminating in Sir Robert Peel's centralized Metropolitan Police in 1829. The early modern British state was thus more responsive to urban problems than previously has been acknowledged.

Book Before the Bobbies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elaine A. Reynolds
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9781349145638
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Before the Bobbies written by Elaine A. Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Policing  A Short History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip Rawlings
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 1135997276
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Policing A Short History written by Philip Rawlings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an overview of the history of policing in the UK, the book investigates the changes in policing strategies over time, and provides a historical foundation for contemporary debates. It will be essential reading for anybody interested in the history of policing, and in today's intense debates on what the police do.

Book Bobby on the Beat

Download or read book Bobby on the Beat written by Bob Dixon and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bobby on the Beat is the true memoir of a real-life London copper, charting Bob Dixon's experiences as a young police officer before he joined the CID.

Book Policing the Metropolis of Scotland  A History of the Police and Systems of Police in Edinburgh  amp  Edinburghshire  1770 1833

Download or read book Policing the Metropolis of Scotland A History of the Police and Systems of Police in Edinburgh amp Edinburghshire 1770 1833 written by and published by Turlough Publishers. This book was released on with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Our Enemies in Blue

Download or read book Our Enemies in Blue written by Kristian Williams and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing. The police represent the most direct means by which the state imposes its will on the citizenry. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent. Using media reports alone, the Cato Institute's last annual study listed nearly seven thousand victims of police "misconduct" in the United States. But such stories of police brutality only scratch the surface of a national epidemic. Every year, tens of thousands are framed, blackmailed, beaten, sexually assaulted, or killed by cops. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on civil judgments and settlements annually. Individual lives, families, and communities are destroyed. In this extensively revised and updated edition of his seminal study of policing in the United States, Kristian Williams shows that police brutality isn't an anomaly, but is built into the very meaning of law enforcement in the United States. From antebellum slave patrols to today's unarmed youth being gunned down in the streets, "peace keepers" have always used force to shape behavior, repress dissent, and defend the powerful. Our Enemies in Blue is a well-researched page-turner that both makes historical sense of this legalized social pathology and maps out possible alternatives.

Book Arms and the Imagination

Download or read book Arms and the Imagination written by Robert C. Gordon and published by Government Institutes. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time of John Milton to that of William Blake, the literature of Britain absorbed the impact of two major military developments. In the early modern era, the military revolution strove to establish permanent armies under state discipline and, in England, the resistance to this development exhibited in the controversy over standing armies. In this penetrating and highly original study, Gordon demonstrates that military debate, encouraged by Britain's semi-secure insular situation, had a remarkable impact on the British imagination and its narratives. Affected were structure and closure; character evaluation; heroic and mock-heroic styles; attitudes toward love and marriage; and the roles of locality and environment in the shaping of the national and personal character. More remarkable still, these effects signaled the emergence of a civilian consciousness that still influences our literary preference and expectations.

Book Queer Eye

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  • Author : Antoni Porowski
  • Publisher : Clarkson Potter
  • Release : 2018-11-13
  • ISBN : 1984823930
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Queer Eye written by Antoni Porowski and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Fab Five--the beloved hosts of Netflix's viral hit Queer Eye--comes a book that is at once a behind-the-scenes exclusive, a practical guide to living and celebrating your best life, and a symbol of hope. Feeling your best is about far more than deciding what color to paint your accent wall or how to apply nightly moisturizer. It's also about creating a life that's well-rounded, filled with humor and understanding--and most importantly, that suits you. At a cultural moment when we are all craving people to admire, Queer Eye offers hope and acceptance. After you get to know the Fab Five, together they will guide you through five practical chapters that go beyond their designated areas of expertise (food & wine, fashion, grooming, home decor, and culture), touching on topics like wellness, entertaining, and defining your personal brand, and complete with bite-sized Hip Tips for your everyday quandaries. Above all else, Queer Eye aims to help you create a happy and healthy life, rooted in self-love and authenticity.

Book Bobbie the Wonder Dog  A True Story

Download or read book Bobbie the Wonder Dog A True Story written by Tricia Brown and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob was an average-looking collie puppy in every way, except for his bobbed tail . . . and maybe that’s why the Brazier family named him Bob, or Bobbie. But he was average in no other way. In 1923, Bobbie joined Frank and Elizabeth Brazier for a cross-country drive from Silverton, Oregon, to Indiana, Frank’s home state, where they planned to visit family. During a stop in Indiana, Bobbie was chased off by loose dogs, and after a week of searching and placing newspaper ads, the broken-hearted Braziers had to give up and start the drive home. Six months to the day after he was lost in Indiana, a very thin Bobbie was spotted on a Silverton sidewalk, his coat matted, his paws raw from wear. Unbelievable as it seemed, the three-year-old dog had WALKED almost 2,800 miles to get back home. Though weak and tired, Bobbie went berserk with joy when he was reunited with his family, and from that day, all of their lives changed. In the weeks and months that followed, his story tore across the country in newspapers and even in a hardcover collection of pet stories. He was the main attraction at an Oregon home-builders convention in Portland, where thousands lined up to pet him, and he starred in a short feature film. Also, the Braziers eventually heard from people along Bobbie's homeward-bound route, places where he’d stopped long enough to recoup, and then he was gone again. These stories verified their thinking. Bobbie had done the impossible. When Bobbie died, he was buried in Portland, Oregon, by the Oregon Humane Society. Rin Tin-Tin was there to lay a wreath at his funeral, which was officiated by the mayor of Portland. This incredible story is all true, and the origins of Lassie Come Home are said to be traced to the story of Bob of Silverton, also known as Bobbie, the Wonder Dog, a Scotch collie mix.

Book Street Food

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charlie Taverner
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2023-01-12
  • ISBN : 0192846949
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Street Food written by Charlie Taverner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the women, men, boys, and girls who hawked oysters, cherries, cabbages, and pies on London's streets, feeding the capital throughout its transformation from medieval city to global metropolis. Street Food reconstructs the working lives of these poor traders, following them from the back alleys and cramped rooms they called home, to the taverns, bridges, and corners where they set up shop. It describes fast-moving food chains, heaving markets, rumbling wheelbarrows, scruffy donkeys, rushing traffic, and advertising cries that echoed through the city. The first long-term, comprehensive history of street selling in London, the book explores the intricacies of hawkers' work and their profound social, economic, and cultural importance to metropolitan life between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries. Based on the largest collection of archival and published evidence to date, it not only highlights the crucial roles street sellers played in fuelling the capital's expansion, but argues that their endurance over three centuries raises challenging questions about major narratives and processes of urban history, like modernization, the rise of retail, and the improvement of the streets. And it examines why the street food of the past-like the continuing vitality of street vendors around the world - is so different to the fashionable street food ubiquitous across London today.

Book Me and Sister Bobbie

Download or read book Me and Sister Bobbie written by Willie Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Abandoned by their parents as toddlers, Willie and Bobbie Nelson found their love of music almost immediately through their grandparents, who raised them in a dusty small town in east Texas. Their close relationship ... is the longest-lasting bond in either of their lives. In alternating chapters, this ... dual memoir weaves together their lives as they experienced them both side-by-side and apart with powerful, emotional stories from growing up, playing music in public for the first time, and the trials they each faced in adulthood as Willie pursued a songwriting career and Bobbie faced a series of challenging relationships and a musical career that only took off when attitudes about women began to change in Texas"--

Book Tiamat s Wrath

    Book Details:
  • Author : James S. A. Corey
  • Publisher : Orbit
  • Release : 2019-03-26
  • ISBN : 0316332860
  • Pages : 524 pages

Download or read book Tiamat s Wrath written by James S. A. Corey and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Tiamat's Wrath finds the crew of the Rocinante fighting an underground war against a nearly invulnerable authoritarian empire, with James Holden a prisoner of the enemy. Now a Prime Original series. HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable. But the price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay. At the heart of the empire, Teresa Duarte prepares to take on the burden of her father's godlike ambition. The sociopathic scientist Paolo Cordozar and the Mephistophelian prisoner James Holden are only two of the dangers in a palace thick with intrigue, but Teresa has a mind of her own and secrets even her father the emperor doesn't guess. And throughout the wide human empire, the scattered crew of the Rocinante fights a brave rear-guard action against Duarte's authoritarian regime. Memory of the old order falls away, and a future under Laconia's eternal rule -- and with it, a battle that humanity can only lose -- seems more and more certain. Because against the terrors that lie between worlds, courage and ambition will not be enough. . . The Expanse Leviathan Wakes Caliban's War Abaddon's Gate Cibola Burn Nemesis Games Babylon's Ashes Persepolis Rising Tiamat's Wrath ​Leviathan Falls Memory's Legion The Expanse Short Fiction Drive The Butcher of Anderson Station Gods of Risk The Churn The Vital Abyss Strange Dogs Auberon The Sins of Our Fathers

Book Until There Was You My Sweet Heart

Download or read book Until There Was You My Sweet Heart written by Christina Ragozzino and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-01-22 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Readers of All Ages This Book I Wrote Is Based On A True Story About My Life, Family and Friends. It’s a mystery Love romance Novel. Its Title Is Called: Until There Was You My sweetheart. I Know All The Readers Out There will Love it and enjoy reading it. Don’t For Get To Tell All Your Friends And Family About My Book. Thanks. Christina Ragozzino.

Book A History of Police and Masculinities  1700 2010

Download or read book A History of Police and Masculinities 1700 2010 written by David G. Barrie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together international scholars this book explores how ideologies about masculinities have shaped police culture, policy & institutional organization from the 18th century to the present day. It provides an in-depth study of how gender ideologies have shaped law enforcement & civic governance under 'old' & 'new' police models.

Book Where the Tigers Were

Download or read book Where the Tigers Were written by Don Meredith and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Very well then--he would travel. Not all that far, not quite to where the tigers were". This quote from Thomas Mann's Death in Venice might describe Meredith, except that he has traveled far indeed--from the United States to Wales, the Middle East, India, Africa, and finally to Lamu Island, Kenya.

Book Law and Government in England during the Long Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Law and Government in England during the Long Eighteenth Century written by D. Lemmings and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents and analyzes these shifts and focuses upon the changing relations between legal authority and the English people.