Tales from the German Underworld: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth Century
by Richard J. Evans
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Paperback / softback. New. Through the means of four powerful and extraordinary narratives from the nineteenth-century German underworld, this book deftly explores an intriguing array of questions about criminality, punishment and social exclusion in modern German history. Drawing on hitherto unexplored legal documents and police files, Richard J. Evans recounts the epic adventures of an art teacher imprisoned for forging bank notes, then transported to Siberia with a gang of violent Prussian felons in 1802; the tragic sufferings of a drunken female vagrant whipped repeatedly by the authorities in Bremen in the 1820s and 30s for the crime of persistently returning to the city after being expelled; the comical and fantastic personal and political deceptions of a con man arrested in the 1860s for not paying his hotel bill; and the ironic career of a young woman who drifts into prostitution after bearing an illegitimate child and discovers the underworld to be much less cruel and immoral than the 'respectable' society from which she was rejected. Each of these narratives sheds light on the qualities of German penal policy in the nineteenth century, when a regime of public and often symbolic physical punishment was transformed into one of silent, regimented incarceration. Evans investigates the complexity of the relations between deviance and control, the ambiguities of criminality in modern German history, and the ways literary models influenced perceptions of - and behaviour in - the criminal world. Richard J. Evans, formerly Professor of History and Vice-Master, Birkbeck College, University of London, is now Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. Among his books are the landmark studies 'Death in Hamburg', 'Rituals of Retribution' and 'In Defence of History'.
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- Title
- Tales from the German Underworld: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth Century
- Author
- Richard J. Evans
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New New
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- 10
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0300187521
- ISBN 13
- 9780300187526
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- This edition first published
- 1998
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