While the City Sleeps

While the City Sleeps

A History of Pistoleros, Policemen, and the Crime Beat in Buenos Aires before Perón

$29.95

Publication Date: 6th December 2016

While the City Sleeps is an extraordinary work of scholarship from one of Argentina’s leading historians of modern Buenos Aires society and culture. In the late nineteenth century, the city saw a... Read More
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While the City Sleeps is an extraordinary work of scholarship from one of Argentina’s leading historians of modern Buenos Aires society and culture. In the late nineteenth century, the city saw a... Read More
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While the City Sleeps is an extraordinary work of scholarship from one of Argentina’s leading historians of modern Buenos Aires society and culture. In the late nineteenth century, the city saw a massive population boom and large-scale urban development. With these changes came rampant crime, a chaotic environment in the streets, and intense class conflict. In response, the state expanded institutions that were intended to bring about social order and control. Lila Caimari mines both police records and true crime reporting to bring to life the underworld pistoleros, the policemen who fought them, and the crime journalists who brought the conflicts to light. In the process, she crafts a new portrait of the rise of one of the world’s greatest cities.
Details
  • Price: $29.95
  • Pages: 248
  • Carton Quantity: 26
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Imprint: University of California Press
  • Series: Violence in Latin American History
  • Publication Date: 6th December 2016
  • Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
  • Illustration Note: 33 b-w images, 7 charts, and 5 maps
  • ISBN: 9780520289444
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    HISTORY / Latin America / South America
Author Bio
Lila Caimari is an Independent Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina, where she studies and teaches the history of crime, journalism, and urban culture. She is the author of several books, including Perón y la Iglesia católica: Religión, Estado y sociedad en la Argentina, 1943–1955 and Apenas un delincuente: Crimen, castigo y cultura en la Argentina, 1880–1955.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction
1. Pistoleros
2. Languages of Crime
3. Order and the City
4. Detecting Disorder
5. The Places of Disorder
6. While the City Sleeps: Police and the Social Imagination

Notes
Index
While the City Sleeps is an extraordinary work of scholarship from one of Argentina’s leading historians of modern Buenos Aires society and culture. In the late nineteenth century, the city saw a massive population boom and large-scale urban development. With these changes came rampant crime, a chaotic environment in the streets, and intense class conflict. In response, the state expanded institutions that were intended to bring about social order and control. Lila Caimari mines both police records and true crime reporting to bring to life the underworld pistoleros, the policemen who fought them, and the crime journalists who brought the conflicts to light. In the process, she crafts a new portrait of the rise of one of the world’s greatest cities.
  • Price: $29.95
  • Pages: 248
  • Carton Quantity: 26
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Imprint: University of California Press
  • Series: Violence in Latin American History
  • Publication Date: 6th December 2016
  • Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
  • Illustrations Note: 33 b-w images, 7 charts, and 5 maps
  • ISBN: 9780520289444
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    HISTORY / Latin America / South America
Lila Caimari is an Independent Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina, where she studies and teaches the history of crime, journalism, and urban culture. She is the author of several books, including Perón y la Iglesia católica: Religión, Estado y sociedad en la Argentina, 1943–1955 and Apenas un delincuente: Crimen, castigo y cultura en la Argentina, 1880–1955.
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction
1. Pistoleros
2. Languages of Crime
3. Order and the City
4. Detecting Disorder
5. The Places of Disorder
6. While the City Sleeps: Police and the Social Imagination

Notes
Index