Good order and safety: a history of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, 1861 - 1906
The formative years -- The war years : 1861/1865 -- A peacetime metropolitan police -- Politics, revolution, and the "social evil" -- A new city charter and old problems -- The crittenden years -- A new board and an international murder case -- Entering the gay nineties -- Preparing for th...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Columbia, Mo.]
Distr. by the Univ. of Missouri Press
2008
[St. Louis, Mo.] Missouri History Museum 2008 |
| In: | Year: 2008 |
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| Availability in Tübingen: | Present in Tübingen. UB: KB 20 A 3232 |
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| Summary: | The formative years -- The war years : 1861/1865 -- A peacetime metropolitan police -- Politics, revolution, and the "social evil" -- A new city charter and old problems -- The crittenden years -- A new board and an international murder case -- Entering the gay nineties -- Preparing for the new century : the Police Act of 1899 -- Policing "the future great city of the world" -- 1904 : the year the world came to St. Louis -- After the fair was over : the reformation "Examines the beginnings of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, from 1861 to 1906, when St. Louis was the fourth-largest city in the United States"--Provided by publisher |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 469 - 520) and index |
| Physical Description: | XVIII, 532 S. Ill., Kt |
| ISBN: | 1883982634 9781883982638 |