Making the Peace: Public Order and Public Security in Modern Britain

by Charles Townshend

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 as to whether the "British trick" of maintaining law and order by consensus is still feasible. Beginning with the Swing, Chartist, and Plug Riots, Charles Townshend shows how public order was steadily tightened during the Victorian era and how that process has continued throughout this century,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019822978X
• ISBN13: 9780198229780
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"