Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History
Autor Paul Beggen Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 apr 2016
William D. Rubenstein, Professor of Modern History, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
England in the 1880s was a society in transition, shedding the skin of Victorianism and moving towards a more modern age. Promiscuity, moral decline, prostitution, unemployment, poverty, police inefficiency… all these things combined to create a feeling of uncertainty and fear.
The East End of London became the focus of that fear. Here lived the uneducated, poverty-ridden and morally destitute masses. When Jack the Ripper walked onto the streets of the East End he came to represent everything that was wrong with the area and with society as a whole. He was fear in a human form, an unknown lurker in the shadows who could cross boundaries and kill.
Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History is not yet another attempt to identify the culprit. Instead, the book sets the murders in their historical context, examining in depth what East London was like in 1888, how it came to be that way, and how events led to one of the most infamous and grisly episodes of the Victorian era.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781138140998
ISBN-10: 1138140996
Pagini: 398
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1138140996
Pagini: 398
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
GeneralCuprins
Ch. 1: INTRODUCTION. Ch. 2: THE EAST END. Ch.3: EMMA ELIZABETH SMITH. Ch. 4: THE BITTER CRY. Ch. 5: MARTHA TABRAM. Ch. 6: FLOUNDER AND FUMBLE, AND 'CATCH WHOM YOU CAN!'. Ch.7: THE MAIDEN TRIBUTE. Ch. 8: 'AT THE CRATER OF A VOLCANO'. Ch. 9: ANNIE CHAPMAN. Ch. 10: THE DOUBLE EVENT - ELIZABETH STRIDE. Ch. 11: CATHARINE EDDOWES. Ch. 12: DEAR BOSS. Ch. 13: MARY JANE KELLY. Ch. 14: THE GREAT VICTORIAN MYSTERY: WHO WAS JACK THE RIPPER? Ch. 15: OTHER RIPPER SUSPECTS. INDEX.
Notă biografică
Paul Begg is one of the world's foremost experts on the case of Jack the Ripper. He is the author of Jack the Ripper: The Facts, and co-author of The Jack the Ripper A to Z. He is the Editor of the Ripperologist magazine.
Recenzii
'As good a general account of Jack the Ripper as exists'
The Sunday Telegraph
The Sunday Telegraph
Descriere
In 1888 the Whitechapel area of London was the scene of some of the most brutal murders ever recorded in history - and yet the case of Jack the Ripper remains unsolved. Steering clear of wild conspiracy theories, and spurious attempts to advance new theories about the identity of the culprit, Paul Begg instead provides the facts behind one of the most infamous and grisly episodes of the Victorian era.
The book is a social history of Victorian East London as it is about the murders themselves. Begg argues that the case excited such interest precisely because of the notoriety of the East End at the time. Chronological coverage includes detailed accounts of the lives of each of the victims and an examination of the police investigation.
The book is a social history of Victorian East London as it is about the murders themselves. Begg argues that the case excited such interest precisely because of the notoriety of the East End at the time. Chronological coverage includes detailed accounts of the lives of each of the victims and an examination of the police investigation.