Underworlds by Florike Egmond

Underworlds by Florike Egmond

Underworlds is a lively account of organized crime and the world of marginal groups in the seventeenth-- and eighteenth--century Netherlands. Rural banditry has often been associated with mountainous, poverty--stricken areas located at the peripheries of the European continent or on the borders between states.

'This book is quite simply groundbreaking at every turnIt is a 'must' for any social and cultural historian of early modern Europe.'
Dr R. Scribner, Clare College, Cambridge

'This is not just a book which will be of value to historians of crime or historians of the Netherlands. It contains a wealth of material on, and insight into, early modern marginal groups, the poor in general, and perceptions of these groups. It is social history at its most vivid.'
Social History Society Bulletin

'One of the central topics in the history of crime, as distinct from the history of justice and punishment, is the question of the extent and nature of professional, organized crime; the question of whether there was a criminal 'underworld'. Florike Egmon's painstaking reconstruction of Dutch criminal bands in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries sheds new light on this issue.' International Review of Social History

Florike Egmond is a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Leiden.

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ISBN 13	9780745606446
ISBN 10	074560644X
Title	Underworlds
Author	Florike Egmond
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	1993-11-11
Number of pages	250
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