Keith Laybourn (with David Taylor), The Battle for the Roads of Britain: Police Motorists and the Law, c 1890-1970
The great economic and personal benefits brought by motor vehicles came with a downside: their challenge to the maintenance of order on the roads and a degree of human carnage from death and injury that raised difficult questions of how governments should most effectually respond. In a broadly chro...
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Dil: | Anglais |
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2019
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | The great economic and personal benefits brought by motor vehicles came with a downside: their challenge to the maintenance of order on the roads and a degree of human carnage from death and injury that raised difficult questions of how governments should most effectually respond. In a broadly chronological account, the book explores responses predominantly from the police point of view. Impressive diligence marshals a great variety of sources including from provincial areas to give non-metr... |
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