Introduction&Susan Broomhall and David G.Barrie

1 The paternal government of men: the self-image and action of the Paris police in the eighteenth century&David Garrioch

2 ‘A species of civil soldier': masculinity, policing and the military in 1780s England&Matthew McCormack

3 Making men: media, magistrates and the representation of masculinity in Scottish police courts, 1800-35&Susan Broomhall and David G.Barrie

4 Becoming policemen in nineteenth-century Italy: police gender culture through the lens of professional manuals&Simona Mori

5 Men on a mission: masculinity, violence and the self- presentation of policemen in England, c.1870-1914&Francis Dodsworth

6 Shedding the uniform and acquiring a new masculine image: the case of the late-Victorian and Edwardian English police detective&Haia Shpayer-Makov

7 ‘Well-set-up men': respectable masculinity and police organizational culture in Melbourne 1853-c.1920&Dean Wilson

8 Of tabloids, detectives and gentlemen: how depictions of policing helped define American masculinities at the turn of the twentieth century&Guy Reel

9 Quiet and determined servants and guardians: creating ideal English police officers, 1900-45&Joanne Klein

10 Science and surveillance: masculinity and the New York State Police, 1945-80&Gerda W.Ray

11 Managerial masculinity: an insight into the twenty-first- century police leader&Marisa Silvestri

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