Making the Peace: Public Order and Public Security in Modern Britain by Charles Townshend (Author)

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Making the Peace: Public Order and Public Security in Modern Britain by Charles Townshend (Author)ISBN: 9780198229780 Publisher : OUP Oxford, 18 Nov. 1993 Hardcover, 274 pages In recent years, such episodes as the death of Blair Peach, the Miners' Strike, the Scarman Report, and the Ponting and Stalker affairs have raised serious doubts as to whether the `British trick' of maintaing law and order by consensus is still feasible. Beginning with the Swing, Chartist, and Plug Riots, Charles Towshend shows how public order was steadily tightened during

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