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Homo criminalis : how organised crime organises the world

Galeotti, Mark2025
Books, Manuscripts
When does a bandit become a monarch? When does a gang become a government? And is organised crime at the heart of every modern state?On a thrilling whistle-stop tour of how the world's criminal underbelly has shaped state-making, capitalism, globalisation and all forms of so-called legitimate power, 'Homo Criminalis' shows the emergence of modern society through the evolution of the underworld and its crimes. From Chinese banditry and eighteenth-century English tea smuggling to today's cocaine submarines and the high-tech crimes of tomorrow, it shows us how the world's dark underbelly shapes us, no matter how we try to outpace it.
Imprint:
London : Ebury Press, 2025.London : Ebury Press, 2025.
Collation:
320 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781529148220 (hbk)
Dewey class:
364.106
Language:
English
BRN:
3063213
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