Making the peace : public order and public security in modern Britain /
In recent years, such episodes as the death of Blair Peach, the Miners' Strike, the Scarman Report, and the Ponting and Stalker affairs have raised serious doubts whether the 'British way' of maintaining law and order by consensus is still feasible.
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1993.
Oxford ; New York : 1993. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The English Image of Order
- 2. The Indian Negative
- 3. Flawed Equipoise 1880-1914
- 4. In Defence of the Realm
- 5. Preparing for Revolution 1919-1939
- 6. The Ultimate Emergency
- 7. The Last Postwar
- 8. Threatening the Life of the Nation
- 9. Losing the Trick.