Crime, Disorder, and the Risorgimento - The Politics of Policing in Bologna

Zusammenfassung 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! and in doing so offers an important new interpretation of the Risorgimento. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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• Authors: Steven C. Hughes
• Assisted by: Gigliola Fragnito (Editor), Cesare Mozzarelli (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.07.2002
• EAN: 9780521893817
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89381-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian H
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History