While the City Sleeps
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While the City Sleeps

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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While the City Sleeps

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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.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780520964105
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Latin American & Caribbean History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. While the City Sleeps
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Pistoleros
  11. 2. Languages of Crime
  12. 3. Order and the City
  13. 4. Detecting Disorder
  14. 5. The Places of Disorder
  15. 6. While the City Sleeps: Police and the Social Imagination
  16. Notes
  17. Index