Night Raiders: Burglary and the Making of Modern Urban Life in London, 1860-1968
Autor Eloise Mossen Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 iul 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780198840381
ISBN-10: 0198840381
Pagini: 268
Ilustrații: 33 black and white images
Dimensiuni: 161 x 242 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0198840381
Pagini: 268
Ilustrații: 33 black and white images
Dimensiuni: 161 x 242 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Night Raiders is an important contribution to the modern history of crime. It will be of particular interest to those historians interested in the public perceptions of crime, in the connections between crime and urban society, and in the exploration of burglary as a discrete form of criminality.
[A] detailed, richly informative account of burglary in the British capital ... A number of [...] chapters are full not only of delightful information but provocative ideas.
In Eloise Moss, that nocturnal invasion of the Englishman's castle has found its most able historian ... the book reveals delights and surprises for the historian, offering every conceivable aspect of burglary in British legal and social history for consideration ... Perhaps the greatest strength in her arguments and assertions about the importance of burglary is in the dimension of urban life and housing, as she provides impressive detail on these topics, covering everything one might imagine, from metaphors of rape to police and public relations.
Eloise Moss' excellent new history of burglars and burglary [is] the result of meticulous research coupled with a style that is highly readable and often amusing. The book is packed with little details that bring it alive.
In this engaging first monograph...Moss makes a compelling case for the centrality of burglary and its ever-present threat as essential in understanding urban societies.
Using official records, newspaper reports, books, films and television programmes, both fact and fiction, [Moss] has put together a vivid account of the history of burglary ... [which] should be of interest to a wide range of readers.
It's a brilliantly original book ... The gender study within the narrative is a gold mine and upends the normative assumption that burglars were always and only men.
One of the great strengths of this book is its effective mixture of perspectives, whether those of burglars themselves, the police, private security companies, burglary victims, journalists, and novelists. In particular, the recurrent analysis of how individual, institutional, state, and market interests intersected to invest burglary with cultural meaning enables the book to offer intriguing new insights into a well-researched period.
Night Raiders deserves a wide readership as it expands and deepens our knowledge of property crime and its perception. Engagingly written and priced at £25, it is likely to secure one. Bursting with fresh information and novel insights, [Night Raiders] is an important point of reference for historians interested in the public perception of crime. Because burglary touches on issues of citizenship, home, family, lifestyles and urban living, Moss chooses to speak to a wider academic and non-academic audience interested in history through crime rather than crime history per se.
Night Raiders is a perceptive and entertaining work of historical recovery and cultural analysis. It is written with considerable panache - at times echoing the crime fiction that provides one of its sources - and unusually well illustrated, and its argument is underpinned by Moss's impressively detailed research in a range of different archives ... this fine monograph demonstrates that there is still plenty that historians can mine from the seam of evidence about past breaches of the law.
[A] detailed, richly informative account of burglary in the British capital ... A number of [...] chapters are full not only of delightful information but provocative ideas.
In Eloise Moss, that nocturnal invasion of the Englishman's castle has found its most able historian ... the book reveals delights and surprises for the historian, offering every conceivable aspect of burglary in British legal and social history for consideration ... Perhaps the greatest strength in her arguments and assertions about the importance of burglary is in the dimension of urban life and housing, as she provides impressive detail on these topics, covering everything one might imagine, from metaphors of rape to police and public relations.
Eloise Moss' excellent new history of burglars and burglary [is] the result of meticulous research coupled with a style that is highly readable and often amusing. The book is packed with little details that bring it alive.
In this engaging first monograph...Moss makes a compelling case for the centrality of burglary and its ever-present threat as essential in understanding urban societies.
Using official records, newspaper reports, books, films and television programmes, both fact and fiction, [Moss] has put together a vivid account of the history of burglary ... [which] should be of interest to a wide range of readers.
It's a brilliantly original book ... The gender study within the narrative is a gold mine and upends the normative assumption that burglars were always and only men.
One of the great strengths of this book is its effective mixture of perspectives, whether those of burglars themselves, the police, private security companies, burglary victims, journalists, and novelists. In particular, the recurrent analysis of how individual, institutional, state, and market interests intersected to invest burglary with cultural meaning enables the book to offer intriguing new insights into a well-researched period.
Night Raiders deserves a wide readership as it expands and deepens our knowledge of property crime and its perception. Engagingly written and priced at £25, it is likely to secure one. Bursting with fresh information and novel insights, [Night Raiders] is an important point of reference for historians interested in the public perception of crime. Because burglary touches on issues of citizenship, home, family, lifestyles and urban living, Moss chooses to speak to a wider academic and non-academic audience interested in history through crime rather than crime history per se.
Night Raiders is a perceptive and entertaining work of historical recovery and cultural analysis. It is written with considerable panache - at times echoing the crime fiction that provides one of its sources - and unusually well illustrated, and its argument is underpinned by Moss's impressively detailed research in a range of different archives ... this fine monograph demonstrates that there is still plenty that historians can mine from the seam of evidence about past breaches of the law.
Notă biografică
Eloise Moss is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. Her research deals with histories of crime, gender, and urban culture from the Victorian period to the present. You can follow her on twitter: @ladyburglar.