Darren A Raspa

Bloody Bay

Grassroots Policing in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

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Produktbeschreibung

Bloody Bay follows the history of policing in nineteenth-century San Francisco, exploring the city’s culture of popular justice, its multi-ethnic environment, and how the unique relationships formed between informal and formal policing created a more progressive policing environment than anywhere else in the nation. 

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781496217530
• ISBN-10: 1496217535
• Artikelnr.: 59179513

Autorenporträt

Darren A. Raspa is a Smithsonian National Museum of American History Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Immersion Scholar and an AFRL STEM program mentor at the University of New Mexico. He is also chief historian and director of the AFRL Phillips Research Site History Office in Albuquerque.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: City on Fire
1. Of Heroes and Hounds: The Chilean Origins of Policing in San Francisco,
1846–1849
2. “Adiós, Caballeros”: Multiethnic Vigilantism and Derecho Vulgar in the
Hinterlands, 1848–1852
3. English Jim and the Rise of Grassroots Policeways, 1851
4. Vigilant City: Organizing Community Justice, 1856
Interlude: The Politics of Protecting Chinatown, 1856–1876
5. Pick-Handles on the Plaza, July 1877
6. King of Chinatown: Community Policing Alliance and Dissolution,
1877–1906
7. Tiger Eyes, the Jewel of the Pacific, and Reorienting the Policing
Model, 1912
Conclusion: Chinese Playground
Notes
Bibliography
Index