ENGLISH

Empire of Crime: Organised Crime in the British Empire

By Tim Newark

Book information

Publisher
Pen and Sword
Year
2018
ISBN
1526713047, 9781526713049
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
479 kB (490849 bytes)
Pages
272\0
Time added
2018-03-07 04:43:50
Organized Crime;True Crime;Biographies & Memoirs;G

Description

When Great Britain took the moral high ground and banned its lucrative export of opium from Imperial India to China, it unleashed a century of criminality. Where America's misguided Prohibition of alcohol made illicit fortunes for the Mafia, across the pond the organised criminals within the British Empire grew rich on their trade in illegal narcotics in the 20th century. Empire of Crime is the first book to reveal the full extent and variety of organised crime within the British Empire in the 20th century. By delving into British colonial archives, Newark has discovered breath-taking truths about organised crime inside the British Empire.  This book unravels how gangsters exploited its global trade routes to establish a new age of criminal networks that spanned the world. See

Similar books