Vagrant Figures: Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police by Sal Nicolazzo

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History

Vagrant Figures: Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police

Sal Nicolazzo

320 pages hardcover 2021

1 edition

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Arguing that the legitimacy of the police was built upon the much older legal category of vagrancy, Nicolazzo traces vagrancy through an expansive, transatlantic legal and literary archive that reveals the everyday theorization of local security a...

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