Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld, Kalifa Dominique

Автор: Shaw Mark
Название: Hitmen for Hire: Exposing South Africa`s Underworld
ISBN: 1868427110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781868427116
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: When you next sit down at your local coffee shop, look around you: there may just be a professional hitman sitting at the next table. As author Mark Shaw reveals in this highly original and informative book, the upper world sails perilously close to the underworld. Hitmen for Hire takes the reader on a journey like no other, navigating a world of hammermen (hitmen), informers, rogue policemen, taxi bosses, gang leaders and crooked businessmen. The book examines a system in which contract killings have become the norm, looking at who arranges hits, where to find a hitman, and even what it is like to be a hitman or woman. Since 1994, South Africa has witnessed some spectacular underworld killings associated with various industries and sectors. Drawing on over a thousand cases, from 2000 to 2016, Shaw reveals how these murders have an outsized impact on the evolution of both legal and illegal economic activity.

Автор: Aronson Theo
Название: Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld
ISBN: 1839012609 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781839012600
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Prince Albert Victor, known to his family as 'Eddy', was the eldest child of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. This is the story of Prince Eddy's alleged involvement in a Victorian cause c l bre - the Cleveland Street brothel case.

The discovery of this homosexual brothel in 1889 led to an extraordinary cover-up by the British government - a cover-up which is explicable only in the light of Prince Eddy's involvement.

Working from original sources (including the files of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Esher Papers), Theo Aronson has written the first full account of the strange life of Prince Eddy, setting it in perspective against a vivid backcloth of the astonishingly active homosexual underworld during the last decades of Queen Victoria's reign.

Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld explores Prince Eddy's upbringing, his university and military careers, his curious personality, his alleged "secret marriage", his links with the Jack the Ripper murders, his early death and, above all, his sexual orientation. For it was this that linked the young prince's name to the Cleveland Street Scandal.

Автор: Robert J. Kelly
Название: The Upperworld and the Underworld
ISBN: 1461372151 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781461372158
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: From Damon Runyan`s colorful tough guys in black shirts and white ties to recent media coverage of John Gotti, the `dapper don`, public depictions of racketeers in the United States have drawn attention away from the true nature of organized crime and its extensive penetrations into mainstream business.

Автор: Bryan Wagner
Название: The Life and Legend of Bras-CoupA©: The Fugitive Slave Who Fought the Law, Ruled the Swamp, Danced at Congo Square, Invented Jazz, and Died for Love
ISBN: 0807170259 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807170250
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Although few recognize the name of Bras-Coup?© today, Bryan Wagner's riveting history The Life and Legend of Bras-Coup?© illustrates why the saga of this notorious escaped slave should be a touchstone among scholars and students of the African diaspora. After losing an arm in a pitched battle with the New Orleans police in the 1830s, Bras-Coup?© hid for several years in a swamp near the city. During this time, law enforcement widely publicized their manhunt for him through newspapers, wanted posters, and other media. Messages from the mayor's office promoted a violent image of Bras-Coup?©, casting him as the primary reason police needed the right to use deadly force in the course of their duties. After a former friend betrayed and killed the bandit in July 1837, local officials displayed Bras-Coup?©'s corpse in the Place d'Armes, where they ordered slaves to bear witness. The Bras-Coup?© legend grew after his death and took on fantastic dimensions. Storytellers gave him superpowers. His skin, it was alleged, could not be punctured by bullets. His gaze could turn men to stone. Folklorists have transcribed many such examples of the tradition, and writers, including George Washington Cable and Robert Penn Warren, have adapted it into novels. Over time, new details appeared in the mythology and the legend transformed. Some said that he was an African prince before he was kidnapped and brought to Louisiana; others, that he was the most famous performer at Congo Square, playing an indispensable role in the preservation of African music and dance. Sidney Bechet, one of the city's most celebrated composers and reed players, even suggested it was Bras-Coup?© who invented jazz. Including fugitive slave advertisements, arrest records, and journalism from the 1830s, this critical edition collects the most important primary materials related to Bras-Coup?©'s story. Wagner's timely and deft examination of this unique historical figure reveals how a single man's life, shaped by the horrors of slavery and the cultural m?©lange of Louisiana, can evolve into legend.