A cette préoccupation de la défense des particuliers contre les malfaiteurs, s’ajoute une préoccupation politique. Les gouvernements auraient constamment à se défendre par la force, si les factions politiques, qui préfèrent à la voie légale trop lente à leur gré, celle des armes, pouvaient librement fabriquer, entreposer, détenir celles-ci et s’en munir, quand bon leur semblerait. Aussi voyons-nous la législation due le port d’armes osciller entre le libéralisme et la sévérité, selon les époque calmes ou troublées.
Henri Barbier
1880 - Le délit de port d’armes prohibées
PREWArAs Researcher and team member Amerigo Caruso visits the NRW Archive in Muenster to investigate how would private police operate during the miners’ strikes between 1890 and 1910 and what was its connection with local enterprises. The German archives preserve documents and resources of great interest on such type of Armed groups.
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6 – 9 September 2017 PREWArAs team member presents his paper at the ECPR General Conference in Oslo. The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Annual Conference is hosted at the University of Oslo, in Norway. The event will create the opportunity for exchanging ideas and sharing the best thinking in the discipline. The
Read moreItalian local television dedicates a news report to the ERC Day that the University of Padova has organized and promoted to introduce to the city the award winning ERC Projects coordinated by Italian Principal Investigators who has chosen to make Italy, and particularly Padova, their work place, after years of research activity abroad.
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Discussing the case of Political violence in France from the French Revolution to the late 1800s at the American University of Rome Dr. Romain Bonnet, PREWArAs Researcher and team member gives a lecture at the American University of Rome (AUR) and presents the case of “Regime Changes and Political Violence in France, 1789-1889”. The lecture
Read moreIl Governo inoltre dovrebbe promuovere e favorire la costituzione di quelle benemerite associazioni private, che ànno per iscopo di concorrere con la polizia nella lotta contro la delinquenza.
Vincenzo Manzini
1910 - Italian private associations against crime
El Somatén es la Paz: pero que debe estar dispuesto para la guerra cuando ésta es justa y legitima, porque la sangre que así se derrama es el mejor riego para el árbol de la civilización.
Paz y tregua
1913 - El Somatén Armado de Cataluña
Le Pattuglie cittadine, “sorsero ed operarono quasi sempre senza esplicita autorizzazione governativa per supplire alla insufficienza della Forza pubblica di fronte al dilagare della delinquenza e del teppismo o ad incomposte agitazioni popolari, ma si mantennero sempre nella legalità costituendosi in Corpo armato, sciogliendosi e ricostituendosi secondo le esigenze dei vari momenti e confortate dal tacito consenso degli organi statali”
Ettore Vulterini
1922 - Arditi comunisti e Squadre d’azione fasciste
El trabajo requiere que se mantenga la normalidad pública, para su adecuando desenvolvimiento, y por otra parte es un factor importantísimo que por medio del ahorro contribuye á la creación de la propiedad individual: de aquí que la seguridad de las personas y la defensa de la propiedad, sean los objetos característicos de la misión que vienen á llenar los Somatenes.
Paz y Tregua
1901 - Paz y Tregua, monthly of the paramilitary organization Somatén Armado de Cataluña
PREWArAs Researcher and team member Romain Bonnet focuses his research on the Jaunes (the “Yellows”, a French independent labour Union) and on strike-breaking groups, both of them are significant examples of Armed Associations operating in France before the outbreak of WWI.
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