The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government
by: Markus D. Dubber
Publisher: Columbia University Press (2004)
$38.00
Staff Pick by comrade: Tom C.
Maybe the best recap of the history of the idea and practice of policing, especially policing as it rose into a formative social force more or less simultaneously with capitalism in England 1400's onward. Not a difficult read; clear, straightforward prose with some Canadian English.