Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe

This book provides the first serious academic exploration of the origins and development of the role of soldier-policemen: the gendarmeries of nineteenth-century Europe. Looking at how the model was first developed in France and then exported across nineteenth-century Europe, it is argued that gendarmes played a significant role in establishing the state, particularly in rural areas. As a result of developing organization and style of policing, the 19th-century gendarme had brought the idea of the state and the state's law to much of continental Europe by the twentieth century.

Contents:
– Part 1: The Coming of the Gendarmes
1 Introduction
2 The most useful corps for the nation: The marechaussee
3 Gendarmes and the Revolution
4 Gendarmes in Napoleonic France
– Part 2: France: Consolidation
5 The Gendarmerie and the Restoration
6 Gendarmes and the July Monarchy
7 Gendarmes Imperial and Republican
– Part 3: Europe: Spreading the Model
8 Policing Rural Europe before Napoleon
9 Gendarmes across the Empire
10 Gendarmes beyond the Empire
11 Variations: Carabinieri
12 Variations: Landjagers and Gendarmes
13 Variations: The Habsburg Lands
14 Variations: Elsewhere
15 'The man praising order'
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Clive Emsley is Professor of History at the Open University and author of Longman Companion to Napoleonic Europe (OUP: 1993).