The imagined underworld : sex, crime, and vice in porfirian Mexico City /

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Recounts six infamous crimes committed in nineteenth-century Mexico City and the underworld they were used to create. Examining judicial records, newspapers, government documents, and travel accounts, the author uncovers the truth behind some of nineteenth-century Mexico's most notorious crimin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Garza, James Alex
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007.
Temas:
1800-1899
Crime > Mexico > Mexico City > History > 19th century.
Criminals > Mexico > Mexico City > Biography.
Criminels > Mexique > Mexico > Biographies.
TRUE CRIME > General.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Crime.
Criminals.
Social conditions
Crime > Mexique > Mexico (Mexique) > 19e siècle.
Délinquants > Mexique > Mexico (Mexique) > Biographies.
Mexico City (Mexico) > Social conditions.
Mexico > Mexico City.
Mexique > Mexico (Mexique) > Conditions sociales.
Biography
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Charting the imagined city
  • The terror of Peralvillo, "El Chalequero"
  • Love, betrayal, and death in the underworld
  • Organized crime and the porfirian state
  • Disease, decay, and the strange case of Federico Abrego and María Barrera
  • Politics, corruption, and the Arnulfo Arroyo affair
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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