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This book examines the rapid spread of uniformed police forces throughout late nineteenth-century urban America. It suggests that, initially, the new kind of police in industrial cities served primarily as agents of class control, dispensing and administering welfare services as an unintentioned consequence of their uniformed presence on the streets.Monkkonen, Eric H. is the author of 'Police in Urban America, 1860-1920 (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)', published 1981 under ISBN 9780521234542 and ISBN 0521234549.
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