Angus Mclaren

Playboys and Mayfair Men

Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The shocking true story of a diamond theft gone wrong.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 509g
• ISBN-13: 9781421423470
• ISBN-10: 1421423472
• Artikelnr.: 48136061

Autorenporträt

examines the origins and cultural meanings of the playboy¿the male 1930s equivalent of the 1920s flapper; ¿

Inhaltsangabe

convincingly links disparate issues such as divorce reform, corporal
punishment, effeminacy, and fascism.
The trial is fascinating, not simply because of its four young louts but
because it revealed for the first time in the media troubling aspects of
British society which had escaped serious scrutiny. An original and
exciting cultural history of 1930s Britain, this innovative book and the
exploits of its dissolute playboys will appeal to true-crime readers and
historians alike.