Tales from the German Underworld: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth Century

by Richard J. Evans

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300187521
• ISBN13: 9780300187526
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"