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1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 286 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511523366
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in Italian history and culture
Content:
This 1994 book provides a meticulous examination of the ideology, structure, and functions of papal police as they operated in the city and province of Bologna in the period before Italian unity. In doing so, it also offers an important new perspective on the Risorgimento in the region. The author argues that after the Restoration the papal government maintained much of Napoleon's police apparatus in order to enhance its absolute power as an administrative monarchy; but the new police soon found themselves incapable of dealing effectively with the prevailing problems of the day, including political conspiracy, rampant unemployment, widespread poverty, and endemic crime in city and countryside alike. In 1828 and 1847 the papal government was forced to allow Bologna's elites to arm themselves in posse-style 'citizen patrols'. On each occasion the patrols became a rallying point of reform and, eventually, revolution
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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1. Setting the stage: Bologna, the ancien regime, and Napoleon -- 2. Consalvi's cops -- 3. Functions and failures (1815-1831) -- 4. Public order and the revolution of 1831 -- 5. Reform and failure (1832-1847) -- 6. Reform and revolution (1847-1849) -- 7. The search for stability and the turn to Piedmont (1849-1859) -- 8. Epilogue: Risorgimento, freedom, and repression -- 9. Conclusion -- Appendix A Personnel plans of Bologna's Provincial Police, 1816-1863 -- Appendix B The pattern of crime in Bologna, 1819-1846.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521444507
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521893817
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521444507
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511523366
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