Policing Rio de Janeiro - Repression and Resistance in a Nineteenth-Century City

"Holloway's analysis of police institutions and leadership is fresh and useful, as is much of his data. . . . This pioneering book willserve historians as an interesting point of departure in the effort to recover the social and political history of Rio's masses in this neglected era."--The Historian

Zusammenfassung

This is a study of the growth of the police control in Latin America offering a history of one of the fundamental institutions of the modern world through which the power of the state intrudes on public space to control and direct behaviour.

Zusatztext

"Holloway's analysis of police institutions and leadership is fresh and useful, as is much of his data. . . . This pioneering book willserve historians as an interesting point of departure in the effort to recover the social and political history of Rio's masses in this neglected era."

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Thomas Holloway, Thomas H Holloway, Thomas H. Holloway, Holloway Thomas
• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.09.1993
• EAN: 9780804720564
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-2056-4
• Seiten: 392
• Abmessung: 160 mm x 234 mm x 28 mm
• Gewicht: 680 g
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Kulturgeschichte; Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Politik