Francesco Landolfi

Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition (eBook, ePUB)

Gotham and the Age of Recklessness, 1920-1933

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale crime.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000623482
• Artikelnr.: 64101755

Autorenporträt

Francesco Landolfi holds a PhD in Historical Studies from the University of Florence, Italy. His research concerns the history of crime during the twentieth century, the rise of far-left/right terrorisms in Rome in the 1970s and the making of the Irish mob in Boston between the 1960s and 1990s.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. New York Between Alcohol and Prohibition (1784-1896)
2. Cops and Mobsters
3. Before the Eighteenth Amendment (1913-1919)
4. Years of Opposition (1920-1925)
5. Years of Carelessness (1926-1929)
6. The Lords of the Liquors
7. From Old Bandits to Modern Gangsters
8. Years of Crisis (1930-1933)
Conclusion