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While the City Sleeps

A History of Pistoleros, Policemen, and the Crime Beat in Buenos Aires Before Perón

By: Lila Caimari

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While the City Sleeps

A History of Pistoleros, Policemen, and the Crime Beat in Buenos Aires Before Perón

By: Lila Caimari

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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Univ of California Press

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0520289447

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9780520289444

While the City Sleeps

A History of Pistoleros, Policemen, and the Crime Beat in Buenos Aires Before Perón

By: Lila Caimari

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While the City Sleeps

A History of Pistoleros, Policemen, and the Crime Beat in Buenos Aires Before Perón

By: Lila Caimari

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. In this book, 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 an incredible portrait of the rise of one of the world’s greatest cities.

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Univ of California Press

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0520289439

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9780520289437

Cities and News

By: Lila Caimari

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Cities and News

By: Lila Caimari

This Element examines urban imaginaries during the expansion of international news between the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, when everyday information about faraway places found its way into newspapers all over the world. Building on the premise that news carried an unprecedented power to shape representations of the world, it follows this development as it made its way to regular readers beyond the dominant information poles, in the great port-cities of the South American Atlantic. Based on five case studies of typical turn-of-the-century foreign news, Lila Caimari shows how current events opened windows onto distant cities, feeding a new world horizon that was at once wider and eminently urban.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108823807

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