Organised crime in history
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Organised crime in history
Routledge, 2009
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Organized crime in history
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When societies get organised, so do their criminals. Traditionally, organised crime has been seen as an essentially modern phenomenon but as this ground-breaking collection of studies shows, from the protection racketeers of ancient Rome to the bandits who ravaged medieval and early modern Europe, the murderers-for-hire of the original Assassin cult to the pirates who sailed the Atlantic and the Caribbean, organised crime has always lurked in the shadowy underside of human society. In this book, historians, criminologists and sociologists bring new light to these shadows, for the first time exploring the role organised crime has played throughout history in a wide range of cultures and situations. Is the tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves an allegory of organised crime in medieval Iraq? Did organised crime flourish under the Aztecs of Central America or the Tsars of Russia? How effectively were criminals from pirates and bandits to German bank robbers able to cooperate with each other and with those who ruled over them? Did the black market help undermine Nazi control over Occupied France? In answering these and other questions, this book opens up an important and exciting new field of academic study, making a first contribution to writing the mafia history of the world.
This book was orginally published as a special issue of Global Crime.
Table of Contents
1. CRIMINAL HISTORIES: AN INTRODUCTION Mark Galeotti
2. 'ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES': AN ALLUSION TO ABBASID ORGANISED CRIME Wisam Mansour
3. Living on the Edge in an Ancient Imperial World: Aztec Crime and Deviance Frances F. Berdan
4. CO-OPTION OR CRIMINALISATION? THE STATE, BORDER COMMUNITIES AND CRIME IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE Kelly Hignett
5. PIRATES, MARKETS, AND IMPERIAL AUTHORITY: ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF MARITIME DEPREDATIONS IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1716-1726 Arne Bialuschewski
6. THE HISTORY OF NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE MISDIRECTED STUDY OF ORGANISED CRIME Jane Dickson-Gilmore and Michael Woodiwiss
7. THE WORLD OF THE LOWER DEPTHS: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN RUSSIAN HISTORY Mark Galeotti
8. THE GERMAN UNDERWORLD AND THE RINGVEREINE FROM THE 1890S THROUGH THE 1950S Arthur Hartmann and Klaus von Lampe
9. ECONOMIC DRAINING - GERMAN BLACK MARKET OPERATIONS IN FRANCE, 1940-1944 Paul Sanders
10. INTERNATIONAL POLICE COOPERATION AGAINST ORGANISED CRIME BETWEEN THE WARS Nadia Gerspacher
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