Gangland Sydney

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With its intake of English criminals in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Sydney had a ready-made criminal class in operation. From the Razor Gang Wars of the 1920s and 1930s through to the rise of the East Coast Milieu in the 1970s and the intense rivalry between outlaw motorcycle gangs in the 1980s, Gangland Sydney puts Sydney's criminal past under the microscope. Also under examination is Sydney's notorious crime hotspot Kings Cross, as well as the role the New South Wales police forc…

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Title Statements

Full title :Gangland Sydney.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Melbourne University Publishing
Place of Publication:VIC
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (318 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0522860397, 9780522860399
oclc:ocn831117843
LC Classification:HV6439.A87
Dewey Decimal:364.106099441

Preface; 1 Founding Fathers; 2 The Rip Roaring Twenties; 3 The Game, Gambling and Cocaine; 4 Some Grey and Other Fleeting Shadows; 5 The War Years, 1940-1945; 6 After the War Was Over; 7 The 1970s; 8 War in the 1980s; 9 Sex and the Sydney Citizen; 10 The Best That Money Can Buy; 11 Bikers; 12 The Drug Trade; 13 Kings of the Cross; Notes; Selected Bibliography.

Subjects

Crime organisé -- Histoire. -- Australie Gangs Gangs -- History. -- Australia History Mafia Mafia -- Histoire. -- Australie Mafia -- History. -- Australia New South Wales -- Sydney Organized crime Organized crime -- History. -- Australia