Policing Paris: The Origins of Modern Immigration Control Between the Wars

by Clifford Rosenberg

Book Overview

The surveillance of immigrants and potential terrorists preoccupies leaders throughout the industrialized world. Yet these concerns are hardly new. Policing Paris examines a critical moment in the history of immigration control and political surveillance. Drawing on massive police archives and other materials, Clifford Rosenberg shows how in the years after the Great War the French police, terrified by the Bolshevik Revolution and the specter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801444276
• ISBN13: 9780801444272
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher