Organised Crime In History (häftad)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
198
Utgivningsdatum
2008-12-01
Förlag
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Illustrationer
20 black & white tables
Dimensioner
250 x 180 x 20 mm
Vikt
580 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780415478175

Organised Crime In History

Inbunden,  Engelska, 2008-12-01
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When societies get organised, so do their criminals. Traditionally, organised crime has been seen as an essentially modern phenomenon but as this ground-breaking collection of studies shows, from the protection racketeers of ancient Rome to the bandits who ravaged medieval and early modern Europe, the murderers-for-hire of the original Assassin cult to the pirates who sailed the Atlantic and the Caribbean, organised crime has always lurked in the shadowy underside of human society.In this book, historians, criminologists and sociologists bring new light to these shadows, for the first time exploring the role organised crime has played throughout history in a wide range of cultures and situations. Is the tale of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" an allegory of organised crime in medieval Iraq? Did organised crime flourish under the Aztecs of Central America or the Tsars of Russia? How effectively were criminals from pirates and bandits to German bank robbers able to cooperate with each other and with those who ruled over them? Did the black market help undermine Nazi control over Occupied France? In answering these and other questions, this book opens up an important and exciting new field of academic study, making a first contribution to writing the mafia history of the world. This book was orginally published as a special issue of "Global Crime".

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Fler böcker av Mark Galeotti

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University of Keele, UK

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1. CRIMINAL HISTORIES: AN INTRODUCTION Mark Galeotti2. 'ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES': AN ALLUSION TO ABBASID ORGANISED CRIME Wisam Mansour3. Living on the Edge in an Ancient Imperial World: Aztec Crime and Deviance Frances F. Berdan4. CO-OPTION OR CRIMINALISATION? THE STATE, BORDER COMMUNITIES AND CRIME IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE Kelly Hignett5. PIRATES, MARKETS, AND IMPERIAL AUTHORITY: ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF MARITIME DEPREDATIONS IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1716-1726 Arne Bialuschewski6. THE HISTORY OF NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE MISDIRECTED STUDY OF ORGANISED CRIME Jane Dickson-Gilmore and Michael Woodiwiss7. THE WORLD OF THE LOWER DEPTHS: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN RUSSIAN HISTORY Mark Galeotti8. THE GERMAN UNDERWORLD AND THE RINGVEREINE FROM THE 1890S THROUGH THE 1950S Arthur Hartmann and Klaus von Lampe9. ECONOMIC DRAINING -- GERMAN BLACK MARKET OPERATIONS IN FRANCE, 1940-1944 Paul Sanders10. INTERNATIONAL POLICE COOPERATION AGAINST ORGANISED CRIME BETWEEN THE WARS Nadia Gerspacher