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.
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- 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
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
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
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
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