Heather Shore

Broschiertes Buch

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

A Social and Cultural History

Beschreibung

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.

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-33845-0
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9781349338450
• ISBN-10: 1349338451
• Artikelnr.: 45082745