Night Raiders: Burglary and the Making of Modern Urban Life in London, 1860-1968

ISBN-13: 9780198840381 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 272 str.

Eloise Moss

Opis

Lurking in the shadowy depths of the night-time city, burglars inspired both fear and fascination during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Night Raiders is the first history of burglary in modern Britain, exploring how burglary fundamentally reshaped the meanings of 'home' and urban lifestyles during this important period of change.

Recenzje

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.

O autorze

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.