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The Victorian underworld

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Donald Thomas shows us, through the eyes of its inhabitants, the teeming underbelly of a world more often associated with gentility and high culture.

Defined by night houses and cigar divans, populated by street people like the running-patterer with his news of murder, and entertainers like the Fire King, the underworld was an insular yet diffuse community, united by its deep hatred of the police. In its gin shops and taverns, hard by the fashionable West End, thrived thieves and beggars, cheats, forgers, and pickpockets, preying on rich and poor alike.

Bringing to light the ugly realities of daily life in the underworld, Thomas also tours the convict hulks and Dickensian prisons of the day to paint a grim picture of the losers in the mounting war on crime.

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New York University Press
Language
English
Pages
346

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Subjects
Case studies, Crime, Criminals, History, Social conditions, Sociological aspects of Crime, Geschichte 1830-1914, Kriminalität, Onderwereld (misdaad), Victoriaanse tijd, Sociological aspects, Great britain, history, victoria, 1837-1901
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England
Times
19th century

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1998, New York University Press
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1998, John Murray
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes material from the life stories of criminals as recorded by Henry Mayhew.

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New York

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364.942
Library of Congress
HV6949.E5 T48 1998, HV6949.E5T48 1998

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346 p. :
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346

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0814782388
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98014866
OCLC/WorldCat
38732162
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30997
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1205468

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