{"product_id":"9781350574861","title":"Critical Approaches to Global Police Power Theory, History, Activism","description":"\u003ch1\u003eCritical Approaches to Global Police Power\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTheory, History, Activism\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMax Ward | Amit Prakash\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolitical Science \/ Security\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is the global nature of police power? What are its features and how can they be studied? This landmark multidisciplinary volume looks beyond policing as experienced at the local level, and instead explores the “police idea,” practices, and institutions that have been historically developed through the interaction of capitalist growth, nation-state formation, and imperial encounters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a set of uniquely global case studies including that of the UK, China, Colombia, France, Indonesia, Japan, and the US, this volume shows how police power has been formed by, and has likewise formed, capitalism, nationalism, and imperialism by acting as midwife, guardian, or guarantor\u003cbr\u003eof the norms and forms of life produced by these vast global processes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmit Prakash\u003c\/b\u003e is Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Studies at Middlebury College where he teaches courses on anticolonialism, policing, and border control. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire on Seine: The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975\u003c\/i\u003e (2022). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMax Ward\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at Middlebury College, author of \u003ci\u003eThought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eTranswar Asia: Ideology, Institutions, Practices, 1920-1960\u003c\/i\u003e (2022) and \u003ci\u003eConfronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e (2017).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e29 October 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350574861\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e272\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63031900668044,"sku":"9781350574861","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_b592ebcf-57a7-4642-95d7-758b56b480a7.jpg?v=1792188993","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350574861","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}