State Surveillance, Political Policing and Counter-Terrorism in Britain
State Surveillance, Political Policing and Counter-Terrorism in Britain Examines the formation of state surveillance and the emergence of institutionalized political policing in late Victorian and…
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State Surveillance, Political Policing and Counter-Terrorism in Britain
Examines the formation of state surveillance and the emergence of institutionalized political policing in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.This book deals with the formation of state surveillance and the emergence of institutionalized political policing in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Based on newly declassified documents, Solomon weaves together separate narrative threads which converge to paint a complex picture of the institutional innovations and personal rivalries that produced Britain's first national political police. Little has been written on this early formative period for the British security state, which began in earnest as a response to the Fenian dynamite campaign of the 1880s.
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