The Discreet Charm of the Police State
The Landpolizei and the Transformation of Bavaria, 1945-1965
Biographical note
Jose Raymund Canoy, Ph.D. (2001, History, Indiana University) is Assistant Professor of European History at the University of Oklahoma. His research interests focus on policing, state-society relations, war and society, deviance, criminality, and urban and rural change in modern Germany.
Readership
All those interested in the histories of Germany, Modern Europe, and the post-1945 period, also police scholars, students of suburbanization, occupation studies, criminologists, political scientists, policy scholars and policymakers.
Reviews
"Canoy's book takes an unlikely subject as an entryway into considering longer lines of continuity in German history and will be read with profit by those interested in Bavarian history and German postwar developments."
Eve M. Duffy, The German Studies Review, 31:3 (2008) 634-635.
Eve M. Duffy, The German Studies Review, 31:3 (2008) 634-635.
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Early Career of Bavaria’s Postwar Police Chief and the Origins of the Modern Bavarian Policing Tradition
2. Americans, Bavarians, and the Police Organization Question in 1945
3. The “Foreignization” of Occupation Crime, the Development of an Identity Regime, and the Postwar Emergence of Authoritarian Policing
4. A State within a State? The Landpolizei in Postwar Bavarian Administrative Politics
5. Police and Cultural Defense: Upholding Public Order in Rural Bavaria in the 1950s
6. The Landpolizei, the “Popular Mood,” and Political Policing
7. Obsolescence, Renewal, and Transcendence: The Landpolizei and Suburbanization
8. The Great Technological Fix and the Passing of the Traditional Police State
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Early Career of Bavaria’s Postwar Police Chief and the Origins of the Modern Bavarian Policing Tradition
2. Americans, Bavarians, and the Police Organization Question in 1945
3. The “Foreignization” of Occupation Crime, the Development of an Identity Regime, and the Postwar Emergence of Authoritarian Policing
4. A State within a State? The Landpolizei in Postwar Bavarian Administrative Politics
5. Police and Cultural Defense: Upholding Public Order in Rural Bavaria in the 1950s
6. The Landpolizei, the “Popular Mood,” and Political Policing
7. Obsolescence, Renewal, and Transcendence: The Landpolizei and Suburbanization
8. The Great Technological Fix and the Passing of the Traditional Police State
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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