Confessions of a Thug
(Sprache: Englisch)
Confessions of a Thug was the first dramatic account to expose a European readership to the fantastic world of the murderous Thugs, or highway robbers, who strangled their victims and who have ever since been a stable of Western popular culture
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Confessions of a Thug was the first dramatic account to expose a European readership to the fantastic world of the murderous Thugs, or highway robbers, who strangled their victims and who have ever since been a stable of Western popular culture Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Confessions of a Thug “
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- Select Bibliography
- A Chronology of Philip Meadows Taylor
- THE CONFESSIONS OF A THUG
- Appendix
- Glossary
- Explanatory Notes
Autoren-Porträt von Philip Meadows Taylor
Kim A. Wagner is Professor of Global and Imperial History at Queen Mary, University of London. His research is situated at the cusp of Imperial and Global history, focussing on knowledge, crime and resistance in British India, and on colonial violence and warfare in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. His publications include Thuggee: Banditry and the British in Early Nineteenth-Century India (Palgrave, 2007); Stranglers and Bandits: A Historical Anthology of Thuggee (OUP India, 2009); The Great Fear of 1857: Rumours, Conspiracies and the Making of the Indian Uprising (Peter Lang, 2010); The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857 (Hurst/OUP/Penguin, 2017); and Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre (Yale, 2019).Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Philip Meadows Taylor
- 2024, xxx, 564 Seiten, Maße: 12,9 x 19,1 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Kim A. Wagner
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198854641
- ISBN-13: 9780198854647
- Erscheinungsdatum: 11.07.2024
Sprache:
Englisch
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