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Autore |
Bell Amy Helen |
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Titolo |
Murder capital : suspicious deaths in London, 1933-53 |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015 |
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ISBN |
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1-84779-974-4 |
1-78170-796-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 236 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Murder - History - 20th century - London - England |
Murder - History - Investigation - 20th century - London - England |
Socioeconomic Factors |
Social Control, Formal |
Environment |
Social Problems |
Crime |
Sociology |
History, Modern 1601- |
Social Sciences |
History |
Environment and Public Health |
Criminology |
Ecological and Environmental Phenomena |
Population Characteristics |
Biological Phenomena |
Health Care |
Humanities |
Social Change |
History, 20th Century |
Cities |
Homicide |
Law Enforcement |
Social Welfare & Social Work |
Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency |
History |
Geographic Locations |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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London crime scenes of the 1930s -- Violent crime and the family in wartime London, 1939-45 -- Suspicious deaths and strangers in wartime London, 1939-45 -- Suspicious deaths and abortions in London, 1933-53 -- Infanticide in London, 1933-53 -- Suspicious deaths in post-war London, 1945-53. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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'Murder Capital' is a historical study of suspicious deaths, unexpected deaths whose circumstances required official investigation, in mid-twentieth-century London. Suspicious deaths - murders in the family and by strangers, infanticides and deaths from illegal abortions - reveal moments of personal and communal crisis in the social fabric of the city. By setting the institutional ordering of the city against the hidden intimate spaces where crimes occurred and were discovered, the book presents a new popular history of the city. |
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