London's Underworld
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London's Underworld

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eBook - ePub

London's Underworld

About this book

Anthem's Travel Classics presents Thomas Holmes' masterpiece of early-twentieth-century social journalism: a quirky, engaging and witty look at London's criminal and social underworld of 1912. Holmes investigates the seedy intentions of the pickpockets, prostitutes, prisoners, drunks and murderers that comprise the capital's criminal element, all of whom he rather tends to admire! A more reflective and progressive theme also runs through this work, as the author considers the serious social problems faced by women, the disabled and the unemployed. Both a thrilling exposé and a considered anthropological review, London's Underworld is driven by the author's conflicting feelings of admiration for the rebellious spirit which frees these criminals from the laws of reserved Victorian Society and also pity for the restless, violent attitudes which leave them stranded there alone.Introduced by a modern luminary, London's Underworld is a revealing look at the crooked past of the great city.

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Publisher
Perlego
Year
1998
eBook ISBN
9700000001420
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Criminology
Index
Social Sciences

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