Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936-1945

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Simon Kitson's Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936-1945 offers a ’history from below’ analysis of the attitude of the Marseille Police between the Popular Front and the Liberation of France. Kitson highlights the specificities of policing France’s largest port: clientelism, corruption, a floating population and high levels of criminality, including organised crime. But he also demonstrates why many of his conclusions about Police attitude can be generalised to other parts of France and, in so doing, challenges many of the assumptions of the existing historiography. Although they zealously hunted down Jews and communists, the Police were not as reliable for the Vichy government as is commonly assumed and were, undoubtedly, far more involved in Resistance than most sectors of society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-05-01
Mått:155 x 235 x 24 mm
Vikt:635 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:History of Warfare
Antal sidor:308
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004248359

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Simon Kitson, Ph.D, (1997), Sussex University, is Associate Professor of French at the University of Auckland. His extensive publications on the Second World War include The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France (University of Chicago Press, 2008).

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AcknowledgementsA note on sourcesList of Abbreviations used in this manuscriptA note on the organisation of the PoliceIntroduction1 - From Hope to Disappointment: The Police Experience of the Popular Front2- Marseille Chicago3- Enthusiasm and Co-Operation: The Start of the Vichy Government4- Policing Opposition5- Anti-Semitic Policing 6- The Hunt for German Spies7- Ripping the Heart out of Marseille8- Disaffection and Unreliability9- The New Slave Trade10- New Rivals11- Towards Liberation12- A New Police for a New France?ConclusionBibliographyIndex