History of Police and Masculinities, 1700-2010

David G. Barrie is lecturer in British history at The University of Western Australia. His research interests include crime and punishment in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland. He is author of Police in the Age of Improvement: Police Development and the Civic Tradition in Scotland, 1775-1865 (Willan Publishing, 2008), which was awarded ‘best first book’ in Scottish history by the international committee of the Frank Watson Book Prize. He has published widely on Scottish policing in leading international journals. Susan Broomhall is Winthrop Professor in history at The University of Western Australia. Her research focuses on early modern gender history. Most recently she is editor (with Jaqueline Van Ghent) of Governing Masculinities in the Early Modern Period: Regulating Selves and Others (Ashgate, 2011) and author (with Jennifer Spinks) of Early Modern Women in the Low Countries: Feminising Sources and Interpretations of the Past (Ashgate, 2011).

"This interesting anthology traces changing notions of masculinity in various police agencies in recent history....the work is the best quarry about police sources this reviewer has seen in recent years. Summing up: Highly Recommended." - P.T. Smith, CHOICE, October 2012"This edited collection on how masculine ideologies have shaped, and were shaped by, policing both culturally and institutionally, is a joy to read ... As the study of masculinities slowly makes inroads into areas of history heretofore viewed with either a traditional political focus or, more recently, a specifically female-orienated approach, a collection such A History of Police and Masculinities, 1700–2010 is a welcome addition to gender scholarship." - Deborah Seiler, Otto-Friedrich University, Germany in Parergon"This worthy book casts significant light on an under-explored facet of police history."—Shane Ewen, Journal of Continuity and Change

• Introduction 1. The Paternal Government of Men: The Self-Image and Action of the Paris Police in the Eighteenth Century? 2. 'A Species of Civil Soldier': Masculinity, Policing and Military in 1780s England 3. Making Men: Media, Magistrates and the Representation of Masculinity in Scottish Police Courts, 1800-1835 4. Becoming Policemen in Nineteenth-Century Italy: Police Gender Culture Through the Lens of Professional Manuals 5. Men on a Mission: Masculinity, Violence and the Self-Presentation of Policemen in England c.1870-1914 6. Shedding the Uniform and Acquiring a New Masculine Image: The Case of the Late Victorian and Edwardian English Police Detective 7. 'Well-set up men': Respectable Masculinity and Police Organizational Culture in Melbourne 1853–c.1920 8. Of Tabloids and Gentlemen: How Depictions of Policing helped Define American Masculinities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 9. Quiet and Determined Servants and Guardians: Creating Ideal English Police Officers, 1900–1945 10. Science and Surveillance: Masculinity and the New York State Police, 1945–1980 11. Managerial Masculinity: An Insight into the Twenty-First-Century Police Leader