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While the City Sleeps: A History of Pistoleros, Policemen, and the Crime Beat in Buenos Aires before Perón (Violence in Latin American History)

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While the City Sleeps is an bizarre work of scholarship from one in all Argentina’s leading historians of up to date Buenos Aires society and culture. Within the past due nineteenth century, the town saw an incredible population boom and large-scale urban development. With these changes came rampant crime, a chaotic environment Within the streets, and intense class conflict. In response, the state expanded institutions that were intended to bring about social order and regulate. 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. Within the process, she crafts a new portrait of the upward push of one of the most world’s greatest cities.
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