Private Sins, Public Crimes
Policing, Punishment, and Authority in Iran
ISBN: HB: 9780300275681,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
416 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 22 black&white illus.
416 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 22 black&white illus.
A groundbreaking scholarly study of crime and punishment in Qajar Iran.
Drawing on a rich array of primary sources in multiple languages, Farzin Vejdani argues that in Qajar Iran, the ambiguity in defining the boundaries between private and public...
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50.00 GBP
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Under Cover of Darkness
Murders in Blackout London
ISBN: HB: 9780300270051,
Yale University Press,
October 2024
272 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 black&white illus., 1 map
272 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 black&white illus., 1 map
A gripping new history of London during the Blackout – revealing the violent crime that spread across the capital under the cover of darkness.
Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets of London during the Second World War; fear not...
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22.00 GBP
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Bugsy Siegel
The Dark Side of the American Dream
ISBN: HB: 9780300226195,
Yale University Press,
March 2021
248 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
248 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
In a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (1906-1947) rose from desperate poverty to ill-gotten riches, from an early-twentieth-century family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side to a kingdom of his own maki...
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17.99 GBP
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Vagrant Figures
Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police
ISBN: HB: 9780300241310,
Yale University Press,
February 2021
320 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 3 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 3 black&white illus.
In this innovative book examining eighteenth-century literary treatments of policing and vagrancy, Nicolazzo reveals the narrative, textual, and rhetorical practices that shaped the purview and scope of policing long before the establishment of the m...
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55.00 GBP
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Woman on the Windowsill
A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts
ISBN: HB: 9780300234282,
Yale University Press,
April 2020
296 pp., 20,9x13,9 cm, 32 black&white illus.
296 pp., 20,9x13,9 cm, 32 black&white illus.
On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Diaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair of severed breasts. Offering a meticulously researched and evocative account of the quest to...
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27.50 GBP
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Secret Poisoner
A Century of Murder
ISBN: PB: 9780300250053,
Yale University Press,
August 2019
344 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm, 32 black&white illus.
344 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm, 32 black&white illus.
Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in many ways encapsulated the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann's dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with authorities who...
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13.99 GBP
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Vory
Russia's Super Mafia
ISBN: PB: 9780300243208,
Yale University Press,
April 2019
344 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
344 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, a group that has survived and thrived amid the change...
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11.99 GBP
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Wanted
The Outlaw Lives of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly
ISBN: PB: 9780300227123,
Yale University Press,
July 2017
256 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 42 black&white illus.
256 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 42 black&white illus.
The oft-told exploits of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly survive vividly in the public imaginations of their respective countries, the United States and Australia. But the outlaws' reputations are so weighted with legend and myth, the truth of their live...
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14.99 GBP
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Killing Compartments
The Mentality of Mass Murder
ISBN: HB: 9780300208726,
Yale University Press,
March 2015
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
The twentieth century was among the bloodiest in the history of humanity. Untold millions were slaughtered. How people are enrolled in the service of evil is a question that continues to bedevil. In this trenchant book, Abram de Swaan offers a taxono...
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27.50 GBP
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Terror Courts
America's Experiment with Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay
ISBN: PB: 9780300205596,
Yale University Press,
June 2014
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Within weeks of the September 11 attacks in 2001, the United States had captured hundreds of suspected al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan, and by the following January the first of these prisoners arrived at the U.S. Navy's detention camp in Guantana...
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39.00 GBP
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