The Rise of the Chicago Police Department: Class and Conflict, 1850-1894 by Mitrani, Sam

The Rise of the Chicago Police Department: Class and Conflict, 1850-1894

In this book, Sam Mitrani cogently examines the making of the police department in Chicago, which by...
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Author: Sam Mitrani
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The Rise of the Chicago Police Department: Class and Conflict, 1850-1894 by Mitrani, Sam

The Rise of the Chicago Police Department: Class and Conflict, 1850-1894

$196.30

The Rise of the Chicago Police Department: Class and Conflict, 1850-1894

$196.30
Author: Sam Mitrani
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In this book, Sam Mitrani cogently examines the making of the police department in Chicago, which by the late 1800s had grown into the most violent, turbulent city in America. Chicago was roiling with political and economic conflict, much of it rooted in class tensions, and the city's lawmakers and business elite fostered the growth of a professional municipal police force to protect capitalism, its assets, and their own positions in society. Together with city policymakers, the business elite united behind an ideology of order that would simultaneously justify the police force's existence and dictate its functions. Tracing the Chicago police department's growth through events such as the 1855 Lager Beer riot, the Civil War, the May Day strikes, the 1877 railroad workers strike and riot, and the Haymarket violence in 1886, Mitrani demonstrates that this ideology of order both succeeded and failed in its aims. Recasting late nineteenth-century Chicago in terms of the struggle over order, this insightful history uncovers the modern police department's role in reconciling democracy with industrial capitalism.


Author: Sam Mitrani
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 12/04/2013
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780252038068


Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2014

About the Author
Sam Mitrani is an assistant professor of history at the College of DuPage.


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