Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Clive Emsley
Reviews and Awards
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2000
"This remarkable book is the fruit of extensive research in French, German, Italian and Austrian archives....Thanks to its superb scholarship and graceful style, Emsley's book will be read for decades. All levels."--CHOICE
"Will reward its readers with insight into an explicit example of how state power was extended, as well as the uniquely individualized stories of how gendarmes were rewarded or punished for doing their jobs or abusing their authority. The author's long years of research were demonstrably well worth the effort; his book, especially where he deals with the French gendarmes, sets the standard to which others in the field can only hope to aspire."--The Historian