Underworlds

Organised Crime in the Netherlands 1650 - 1800

Inbunden, Engelska, 1993

Av Florike Egmond, University of Leiden) Egmond, Florike (Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, Sue Leigh

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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 about bands operating in the countryside of one of the most densely populated, economically developed, and pacified European states. It examines the nature of these criminal bands and the way they changed over time. At the same time Underworlds presents an historical anthropology of marginal groups in the Dutch Republic. Investigating the enormous cultural diversity of organized crime and the prominent role of ethnic minorities, Egmond establishes the existence of a variety of `underworlds' rather than of a single `criminal organization'. Drawing extensively on criminal archives, the author reconstructs the ways of life and activities of people whose existence has remained largely hidden behind the conventional accounts of Dutch society.

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Utgivningsdatum1993-11-11
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt563 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor250
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9780745606446

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Preface. Part I. :.1. In Bad Company.2. Confronting the Authorities.Part II. Warfare and Banditry:.3. Post-War Bands: Holland and Zealand, 1615-1720.4. 'Foreign Soldiers': Military Bands in Brabant, 1690-1720.Part III. Ethnicity:.5. Gypsy Bands, 1695-1730.6. Jewish Networks, 1690-1800.Part IV. The Changing Structure of the Rural Underworld:.7. Mixing Minorities, 1720-1800.8. The Brabant Connection, 1730-1810.Conclusion.Appendix.Works Cited.

'This book is quite simply groundbreaking at every turn. It 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