The Ascent of the Detective - Shpayer-Makov, Haia
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The first major history of English police detectives in the Victorian and Edwardian era, during the formative period of their profession, with special emphasis on the detective branch established at Scotland Yard.
Explores the diverse and often arcane world of English police detectives during the formative period of their profession, from 1842 until the First World War, with special emphasis on the famed detective branch established at Scotland Yard.

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The first major history of English police detectives in the Victorian and Edwardian era, during the formative period of their profession, with special emphasis on the detective branch established at Scotland Yard.
Explores the diverse and often arcane world of English police detectives during the formative period of their profession, from 1842 until the First World War, with special emphasis on the famed detective branch established at Scotland Yard.
Autorenporträt
Haia Shpayer-Makov currently teaches British and European history at the University of Haifa, Israel. She began her academic career by concentrating on the anarchist movement in Britain, but later shifted her interest to the study of the anarchists' enemies - policemen. Author of The Making of a Policeman. A Social History of a Labour Force in Metropolitan London (2002), and co-editor with Professor Clive Emsley of Police Detectives in History, 1750-1950 (2006), she has also published extensively in leading scholarly journals.