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London's Criminal Underworlds, c. 1720 - c. 1930

A Social and Cultural History
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
286 Seiten
Englisch
Springer Palgrave Macmillanerschienen am20.03.20151st ed. 2015
This book offers an original and exciting analysis of the concept of the criminal underworld. Print culture, policing and law enforcement, criminal networks, space and territory are explored here through a series of case studies taken from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.mehr
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KlappentextThis book offers an original and exciting analysis of the concept of the criminal underworld. Print culture, policing and law enforcement, criminal networks, space and territory are explored here through a series of case studies taken from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-349-33845-0
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2015
Erscheinungsdatum20.03.2015
Auflage1st ed. 2015
Seiten286 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht381 g
IllustrationenXI, 286 p.
Artikel-Nr.38251673
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GenreGeschichte/Politik

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction 2. 'Now we have the informing Dogs!': Crime Networks and Informing Cultures in the 1720s and 1730s 3. 'A Noted Virago': Moll Harvey and her 'Dangerous Crew', 1727 - 1738 4. 'The pickpockets and hustlers had yesterday what is called a Grand Day': Changing Street Theft, c. 1800 - 1850 5. 'There goes Bill Sheen, the murderer': Crime, Kinship and Community in East London, 1827 - 1852 6. 'A new species of swindling': Coiners, Fraudsters, Swindlers and the 'Long-Firm', c. 1760 - 1913 7. 'A London Plague that must be swept away': Hooligans and Street Fighting Gangs, c. 1882 - 1912 8. 'The Terror of the People': Organised Crime in Interwar London 9. Conclusionmehr

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Autor

Heather Shore is a Reader in History at Leeds Beckett University, UK. She is the author of Artful Dodgers: Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth Century London (1999) and has co-edited two books, with Pamela Cox, Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650-1950 (2002) and with Tim Hitchcock, The Streets of London: From the Great Fire to the Great Exhibition (2003).