| Description |
1 online resource (318 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Gangland
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Gangland.
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| Contents |
Preface; 1 Founding Fathers; 2 The Rip Roaring Twenties; 3 The Game, Gambling and Cocaine; 4 Some Grey and Other Fleeting Shadows; 5 The War Years, 1940-1945; 6 After the War Was Over; 7 The 1970s; 8 War in the 1980s; 9 Sex and the Sydney Citizen; 10 The Best That Money Can Buy; 11 Bikers; 12 The Drug Trade; 13 Kings of the Cross; Notes; Selected Bibliography. |
| Summary |
With its intake of English criminals in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Sydney had a ready-made criminal class in operation. From the Razor Gang Wars of the 1920s and 1930s through to the rise of the East Coast Milieu in the 1970s and the intense rivalry between outlaw motorcycle gangs in the 1980s, Gangland Sydney puts Sydney's criminal past under the microscope. Also under examination is Sydney's notorious crime hotspot Kings Cross, as well as the role the New South Wales police force has played in both helping and hindering the growth of Sydney's criminal empires. Gangland Sydne. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Organized crime -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History.
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Organized crime. |
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Australia. |
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History. |
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Gangs -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History.
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Gangs. |
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Mafia -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History.
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Mafia. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Lobez, Susanna.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Morton, James. Gangland Sydney. VIC : Melbourne University Publishing, ©2011 9780522858709 |
| ISBN |
0522860397 |
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9780522860399 (electronic book) |
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9780522858709 (paperback) |
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0522858708 (paperback) |
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