The rise of the Chicago Police Department : class and conflict, 1850-1894 /

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"In this book, Sam Mitrani cogently examines the making of the police department in Chicago, which by the late 1800s had grown into the most violent, turbulent city in America. Chicago was roiling with political and economic conflict, much of it rooted in class tensions, and the city's law...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mitrani, Sam
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2013.
Series:Working class in American history.
Subjects:
Chicago (Ill.). > Police Department > History.
Chicago (Ill.). > Police Department
Police > Illinois > Chicago > History.
Law enforcement > Illinois > Chicago.
Lois > Application > Illinois > Chicago.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Law Enforcement.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI).
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
Law enforcement
Police
Illinois > Chicago
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1. Drunken Immigrants, Businessmen's Order, and the Founding of the Chicago Police Department""; ""Chapter 2. Paternalism and the Birth of Professional Police Organization""; ""Chapter 3. The Police and the First May Day Strike for the Eight-Hour Day""; ""Chapter 4. The Native-Born Protestant Elite's Bid for Control in the 1870's""; ""Photo insert""; ""Chapter 5. 1877 and the Formation of a Law-and-Order Consensus""; ""Chapter 6. Carter Harrison Remakes the Chicago Police Department""
  • ""Chapter 7. Chicago's Anarchists Shape the Police Department""""Chapter 8. The Eight-Hour Strikes, the Haymarket Bombing, and the Consolidation of the Chicago Police""; ""Epilogue: The Pullman Strike and the Matrix of State Institutions""; ""Notes""; ""Index""

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