This book offers a global history of civilian, military and gendarmerie-style policing around the First World War. Whilst many aspects of the Great War have been revisited in light of the centenary, and in spite of the recent growth of modern policing history, the role and fate of police forces in the conflict has been largely forgotten. Yet the war affected all European and extra-European police forces. Despite their diversity, all were confronted with transnational factors and forms of disorder, and suffered generally from mass-conscription. During the conflict, societies and states were faced with a crisis situation of unprecedented magnitude with mass mechanised killing on the battle field, and starvation, occupation, destruction, and in some cases even revolution, on the home front. Based on a wide geographical and chronological scope – from the late nineteenth century to the interwar years – this collection of essays explores the policing of European belligerent countries, alongside their empires, and neutral countries. The book’s approach crosses traditional boundaries between neutral and belligerent nations, centres and peripheries, and frontline and rear areas. It focuses on the involvement and wartime transformations of these law-enforcement forces, thus highlighting underlying changes in police organisation, identity and practices across this period.
Author(s): Jonas Campion, Laurent López, Guillaume Payen
Series: World Histories Of Crime, Culture And Violence
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 380
Tags: History Of Modern Europe, Crime, Culture, Violence, European Police Forces, Law Enforcement
Front Matter ....Pages i-xxix
Policing in Wartime: Without Any Disruption? General Introduction (Jonas Campion, Laurent López, Guillaume Payen)....Pages 1-13
Front Matter ....Pages 15-15
Bobbies in Khaki: The British Military Police in the First World War (Clive Emsley)....Pages 17-32
Was There a “Lotharingian Axis”? Belgian, French, and Italian Military Policing During the First World War: A Study in Comparative History (Louis N. Panel)....Pages 33-44
Tracking the ‘Enemy Within’: Alcoholisation of the Troops, Excesses in Military Order and the French Gendarmerie During the First World War (Stéphane Le Bras)....Pages 45-64
Carabinieri Pilots and Italian Military Aviation During the First World War (Flavio Carbone)....Pages 65-73
A War-time Secret Police: Activities of the Geheime Feldpolizei on the Western Front During the First World War (Gérald Sawicki)....Pages 75-88
Disarmed and Captive: Greek Gendarmes in Görlitz (Anastasios Zografos)....Pages 89-102
Front Matter ....Pages 103-103
Normal Police Work in Times of War: Really? The Case of Ille-et-Vilaine (Brittany, France) (Jean-François Tanguy)....Pages 105-119
The Complex Policing System of Oldenburg, a Middle German State Far Away from the War? (Gerhard Wiechmann, Guillaume Payen)....Pages 121-139
The Gendarmerie of Luxembourg (Gérald Arboit)....Pages 141-155
The Gendarmerie of the Habsburg Empire During the First World War (Helmut Gebhardt)....Pages 157-167
The Serbian Gendarmerie’s Involvement in the First World War: From Keeping Order at the Rear to Fighting on the Front Line (Stanislav Sretenović)....Pages 169-180
Front Matter ....Pages 181-181
The Swiss Police Forces and Counter-Intelligence (1914–1918) (Christophe Vuilleumier)....Pages 183-193
The Swiss Army Gendarmerie: A Composite Force Facing the Challenges of the First World War (Philippe Hebeisen)....Pages 195-210
Fighting the ‘Enemy Within’: Australian Police and Internal Security in World War I (Joan Beaumont)....Pages 211-226
Coercion, Consent and Surveillance: Policing New Zealand (Richard S. Hill)....Pages 227-241
Police Askaris, Kaiserliche Landespolizisten and Leoleo: The German Colonial Police Forces in 1914–1915 (Gerhard Wiechmann)....Pages 243-254
Front Matter ....Pages 255-255
The Russian Police in War and Revolution (Jonathan Daly)....Pages 257-271
Finding a New Balance: The Belgian Security System in the Aftermath of WWI (Jonas Campion)....Pages 273-291
A War Without an End: French Gendarmes and the Post-conflict Process (1918–1921) (Romain Pécout)....Pages 293-305
“The Penetration of French Ideas”: The Role of the Gendarmerie of Alsace and Lorraine in the Local Rebuilding of French National Identity (1918–1925) (Georges Philippot)....Pages 307-322
Parisian Policemen and the Traces of the Great War (Christian Chevandier)....Pages 323-335
Conclusion: Living and Seeing the War Without Immediate Experience (Jonas Campion, Laurent López)....Pages 337-345
Back Matter ....Pages 347-371
