"We live under the assassin's dagger empire ...": crime and police in Recife of the Nineteenth century (1860-1889)

In the second half of the nineteenth century, various documents (produced by the administrative bureaucracy and police, but also by ordinary citizens and journalists) gave the impression that the Recife lived grappling with a stubborn and growing crime framework. Thefts, robberies and murders would...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wellington Barbosa da Silva
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco 2016-06-01
Series:Clio: Revista de Pesquisa Histórica
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/revistaclio/article/view/25038/20281