Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe [Hardcover]

This book provides the first serious look at the origins and development of the role of soldier-policemen: the gendarmeries of nineteenth-century Europe. Looking at how the model was first developed in France and then exported across Europe, Emsley argues that gendarmes played a significant role in establishing the state, particularly in rural areas.

Part 1: The Coming of the Gendarmes
1. Introduction
2. The most useful corps for the nation: The marechaussee
3. Gendarmes and the Revolution
4. Gendarmes in Napoleonic France
Part 2: France: Consolidation
5. The Gendarmerie and the Restoration
6. Gendarmes and the July Monarchy
7. Gendarmes Imperial and Republican
Part 3: Europe: Spreading the Model
8. Policing Rural Europe before Napoleon
9. Gendarmes across the Empire
10. Gendarmes beyond the Empire
11. Variations: Carabinieri
12. Variations: Landjagers and Gendarmes
13. Variations: The Habsburg Lands
14. Variations: Elsewhere
15. 'The man praising order'
Bibliography

This remarkable book is the fruit of extensive research in French, German, Italian and Austrian archives....Thanks to its superb scholarship and graceful style, Emsley's book will be read for decades. All levels. --CHOICE

Will reward its readers with insight into an explicit example of how state power was extended, as well as the uniquely individualized stories of how gendarmes were rewarded or punished for doing their jobs or abusing their authority. The author's long years of research were demonstrably well worth the effort; his book, especially where he deals with the French gendarmes, sets the standard to which others in the field can only hope to aspire. --The Historian