A History of Pistoleros, Policemen, and the Crime Beat in Buenos Aires before Perón
by
Lila Caimari
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
While the City Sleeps is an extraordinary work of scholarship from one of Argentina’s leading historians of modern Buenos Aires society and culture. In the late nineteenth century, the city saw a massive population boom and large-scale urban development. With these changes came rampant crime, a...