Beschreibung:
Florike Egmond is a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Leiden.
"Underworlds" is a lively account of organized crime and the world of marginal groups in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Netherlands.
Preface. Part I. :. 1. In Bad Company. 2. Confronting the Authorities. Part II. Warfare and Banditry:. 3. Post--War Bands: Holland and Zealand, 1615--1720. 4. a Foreign Soldiersa : Military Bands in Brabant, 1690--1720. Part III. Ethnicity:. 5. Gypsy Bands, 1695--1730. 6. Jewish Networks, 1690--1800. Part IV. The Changing Structure of the Rural Underworld:. 7. Mixing Minorities, 1720--1800. 8. The Brabant Connection, 1730--1810. Conclusion. Appendix. Works Cited.