ISBN:
9780230294998
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (214 pages)
Series Statement:
Crime Files
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
Geschichte 1850-1914
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Englisch
;
Literatur
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Gewaltkriminalität
;
Selbstverteidigung
;
Männlichkeit
Abstract:
This book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of 'body armour' to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the works of popular playwrights and novelists, examining changing ideals of urban, middle-class heroism.
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