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While the City Sleeps : A History of Pistoleros, Policemen, and the Crime Beat in Buenos Aires before Perón / Lila Caimari.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caimari, Lila, Author.
- Series:
- Violence in Latin American history ; 2.
- Violence in Latin American History ; 2
- Standardized Title:
- Mientras la ciudad duerme. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Crime--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History--20th century.
- Crime.
- Crime--Argentina--Buenos Aires--Sociological aspects--History--20th century.
- Police--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History--20th century.
- Police.
- Crime and the press--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History--20th century.
- Crime and the press.
- Mass media and crime--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History--20th century.
- Mass media and crime.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- While the City Sleeps is an extraordinary work of scholarship from one of Argentina's leading historians of modern Buenos Aires society and culture. In the late nineteenth century, the city saw a massive population boom and large-scale urban development. With these changes came rampant crime, a chaotic environment in the streets, and intense class conflict. In response, the state expanded institutions that were intended to bring about social order and control. Lila Caimari mines both police records and true crime reporting to bring to life the underworld pistoleros, the policemen who fought them, and the crime journalists who brought the conflicts to light. In the process, she crafts a new portrait of the rise of one of the world's greatest cities.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Pistoleros
- 2. Languages of Crime
- 3. Order and the City
- 4. Detecting Disorder
- 5. The Places of Disorder
- 6. While the City Sleeps: Police and the Social Imagination
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780520964105
- 0520964101
- OCLC:
- 965737486
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