The Touch of the State: Stop and Search in England, c.1660-1750

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Touch of the State: Stop and Search in England, c.1660-1750

AU - Miller, Jonah

PY - 2019/2/7

Y1 - 2019/2/7

N2 - The long history of stop and search has rarely been explored. In early modern England, particularly in London, the officers who used this power discriminated by gender as they have done more recently by race. The physical experiences of being searched reveal the highly gendered nature of official power in this period. From the first moment of suspicion to the end of the search, agents of the state thought, and then touched, as men.

AB - The long history of stop and search has rarely been explored. In early modern England, particularly in London, the officers who used this power discriminated by gender as they have done more recently by race. The physical experiences of being searched reveal the highly gendered nature of official power in this period. From the first moment of suspicion to the end of the search, agents of the state thought, and then touched, as men.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072396483&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1093/hwj/dby034

DO - 10.1093/hwj/dby034

M3 - Review article

SN - 1363-3554

VL - 87

SP - 52

EP - 71

JO - HISTORY WORKSHOP JOURNAL

JF - HISTORY WORKSHOP JOURNAL

ER -