Organised Crime
Lecture Powerpoint
Please click hereLink opens in a new window.
Seminar Questions
- What forms did organised crime take in early modern Europe?
- What roles did violence play in organised crime?
- How did the authorities respond to organised crime?
Required Reading
All students should read EITHER
- Smith, Alexander, AND , 2nd ed. (London, 1714) [Read the Prefaces to both volumes and three lives of your choice]
OR
- Johnson, Charles, (London, 1724; fourth ed. 1726) [Read the Preface and the lives of Captain Teach/Blackbeard, Mary Read, and Anne Bonny]
E-Resources
- B.E., (London , 1699)
- Cole, B., 'Blackbeard the PirateLink opens in a new window' from Captain Charles Johnson, A General History of the Pyrates (London, 1725)
- Head, Richard, (London, 1674)
- Head, Richard, (London, 1688)
- Nicholls, Joseph, 'Captain Teach, commonly call'd Black BeardLink opens in a new window', from Captain Charles Johnson, A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, &c. To which is added, a genuine account of the voyages and plunders of the most notorious pyrates (London, 1734)
- van de Velde, Esaias, , 1627-1629
- Vulpius, Christian August, The History of Rinaldo Rinaldini Captain of BanditiLink opens in a new window, trans. John Hinckley (Boston, 1824)
Further Reading
Amirell, S. E., et al. (eds), (Basingstoke, 2014)
Appleby, John C., Women and English Piracy, 1540-1720: Partners and Victims of Crime (Basingstoke, 2013)
Barkey, Karen, (Ithaca, NY, 1994)
Belenguer, Ernest, '', Catalan Historical Review 8 (2015), 45-57
Blok, Anton, 'The Peasant and the Brigand: Social Banditry Reconsidered,' Comparative Studies in Society and History 14/4 (1972), 494-503
- Capp, B. S., British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs, 1580-1750 (Oxford, 2022)
Danker, Uwe, 'Bandits and the State: Robbers and the Authorities in the Holy Roman Empire in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries', in , ed. Richard Evans (London, 1988), pp. 75-107.
Dionne, Craig, and Steve Mentz, eds, (Ann Arbor, 2004)
Durston, Gregory J., (Hook, 2012)
Egmond, Florike, '', in Eric A. Johnson and Eric H. Monkkonen, eds, (Urbana, 1996), pp. 138-152.
Egmond, Florike, (Cambridge, 1993)
Fijnaut, Cyrille, and Letizia Paoli, eds, (Norwell, MA, 2004)
Gioia, Cristina, '', in Steven G. Ellis and Lud鈥檃 Klus谩kov谩 (eds), Imagining Frontiers, Contesting Identities (Pisa, 2007), pp. 93-107.
Gotti, Maurizio, (T眉bingen, 1999)
Hignett, Kelly, '', Global Crime 9 (2008), 35-51
Hobsbawm, Eric, , rev. ed. (London, 2001)
Hurl-Eamon, Jennine, (Columbus, OH, 2005)
Judges, A.V., (London, 1930)
Kamen, Henry, 鈥楶ublic Authority and Popular Crime: Banditry in Valencia, 1660-1714', 3 (1974), 654-688.
Kinney, Arthur F., ed., (Amherst, 1990).
Lavarda, Sergio, ',' Crime, Histoire et Soci茅t茅s 11 (2007), 55-82.
Laven, Peter, 'Banditry and Lawlessness on the Venetian Terraferma in the Later Cinquecento', in Trevor Dean and K. J. P. Lowe, eds, Crime, Society, and the Law in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge, 1994), pp. 221-248.
Lunsford, Virginia W., (Basingstoke, 2005)
MacMillan, Ken, (ed.), Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England (London, 2015)
McMullan, John L., (New Brunswick, N.J., 1984)
McMullan, John L., '', Social Problems 29 (1982), 311-323
Middleton, Thomas, and Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girl, ed. Paul A. Mulholland (Manchester, 1987)
Moore, Lucy, (ed.), Con Men and Cutpurses: Scenes from the Hogarthian Underworld (Harmondsworth, 2004)
O'Malley, Pat, 'Social Bandits, Modern Capitalism and the Traditional Peasantry: A Critique of Hobsbawm,' 6/4 (1979): 489-499
Ortalli, Gherardo, ed., (Rome, 1986)
Perry, Mary Elizabeth, (Hanover, NH, 1980)
Povolo, Claudio, 'Liturgies of Violence: Social Control and Power Relationships in the Republic of Venice between the 16th and 18th Centuries', in Eric R. Dursteler (ed.), (Leiden, 2013), pp. 513-42.
Povolo, Claudio, 'The Public Rock of Cut Heads. Violence and Banditry in the Mediterranean: The Republic of Venice in the Sixteenth Century', in Jill Kraye, Marc Laureys, and David A. Lines (eds), (G枚ttingen, 2023), pp. 109-37.
