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

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

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History

Sal Nicolazzo

320 pages • first pub 2021 (view editions)

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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