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Ascent of the Detective

Haia Shpayer-Makov
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      The figure of the detective has long excited the imagination of the wider public, and the English police detective has been a special focus of attention in both print and visual media. Yet, while much has been written in the last three decades about the history of uniformed policemen in England, no similar work has focused on police detectives. The Ascent of the Detective redresses this by exploring the diverse and often arcane world of English policedetectives during the formative period of their profession, from 1842 until the First World War, with special emphasis on the famed detective branch established at Scotland Yard. The book starts by illuminating the detectives' socioeconomic background, how and why they became detectives, their working conditions, the differences between them and uniformed policemen, and their relations with the wider community. It then goes on to trace the factors that shaped their changing public image, from the embodiment of 'un-English' values to plebeian knights in armour, investigating the complex and symbiotic exchange between detectives and journalists, and analysing their imageas it unfolded in the press, in literature, and in their own memoirs.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Haia Shpayer-Makov EAN: 9780199577408 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 816 g HEIGHT: 236 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-09-29 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      England, English, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1900 to c 1909, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Crime and criminology, European history, Social and cultural history

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      Haia Shpayer-Makov currently teaches British and European history at the University of Haifa, Israel. She began her academic career by concentrating on the anarchist movement in Britain, but later shifted her interest to the study of the anarchists' enemies - policemen. Author of The Making of a Policeman. A Social History of a Labour Force in Metropolitan London (2002), and co-editor with Professor Clive Emsley of Police Detectives in History,1750-1950 (2006), she has also published extensively in leading scholarly journals.
      The figure of the detective has long excited the imagination of the wider public, and the English police detective has been a special focus of attention in both print and visual media. Yet, while much has been written in the last three decades about the history of uniformed policemen in England, no similar work has focused on police detectives. The Ascent of the Detective redresses this by exploring the diverse and often arcane world of English policedetectives during the formative period of their profession, from 1842 until the First World War, with special emphasis on the famed detective branch established at Scotland Yard. The book starts by illuminating the detectives' socioeconomic background, how and why they became detectives, their working conditions, the differences between them and uniformed policemen, and their relations with the wider community. It then goes on to trace the factors that shaped their changing public image, from the embodiment of 'un-English' values to plebeian knights in armour, investigating the complex and symbiotic exchange between detectives and journalists, and analysing their imageas it unfolded in the press, in literature, and in their own memoirs.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Haia Shpayer-Makov EAN: 9780199577408 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 816 g HEIGHT: 236 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-09-29 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      England, English, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1900 to c 1909, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Crime and criminology, European history, Social and cultural history

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      Haia Shpayer-Makov currently teaches British and European history at the University of Haifa, Israel. She began her academic career by concentrating on the anarchist movement in Britain, but later shifted her interest to the study of the anarchists' enemies - policemen. Author of The Making of a Policeman. A Social History of a Labour Force in Metropolitan London (2002), and co-editor with Professor Clive Emsley of Police Detectives in History,1750-1950 (2006), she has also published extensively in leading scholarly journals.

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