The German underworld
Subtitle: deviants and outcasts in German history
By: edited by Richard J. Evans.
Contributors: Evans, Richard J.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1988
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Crime -- Germany -- History.; Crime -- Europe, Central -- History.; Marginality, Social -- Germany -- History.; Marginality, Social -- Europe, Central -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: The "dangerous classes" in Germany from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century / Richard J. Evans; title: The Mordbrenner fear in sixteenth-century Germany / Bob Scribner; title: The equation of women and witches / Susanna Burghartz; title: Bandits and the state / Uwe Danker; title: Infanticide in eighteenth-century Germany / Otto Ulbricht; title: Poachers in Upper Bavaria in 1848 / Regina Schulte; title: The crime rate / Eric A. Johnson; title: Prostitutes in imperial Germany, 1870-1918 / Lynn Abrams; title: Vagrants and beggars in Hitler's Reich / Wolfgang Ayass; title: "Law-abiding Germans", social disintegration, crime, and the reimposition of order in post-war western Germany, 1945-9 / Alan Kramer.