The German Underworld (Routledge Revivals)

List of Tables and Figures; Abbreviations; Preface; 1. Introduction: The ‘Dangerous Classes’ in Germany from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century Richard J. Evans 2. The Mordbrenner Fear in Sixteenth-century Germany: Political Paranoia or the Revenge of the Outcast? Bob Scribner 3. The Equation of Women and Witches: A Case Study of Witchcraft Trials in Lucerne and Lausanne in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Susanna Burghartz 4. Bandits and the State: Robbers and the Authorities in the Holy Roman Empire in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries Uwe Danker 5. Infanticide in Eighteenth-century Germany Otto Ulbricht 6. Poachers in Upper Bavaria in 1848: Crime or Conflict? Regina Schulte 7. The Crime Rate: Longitudinal and Periodic Trends in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century German Criminality, from Vormärz to Late Weimar Eric A. -Johnson 8. Prostitutes in Imperial Germany, 1870-1918: Working Girls or Social Outcasts? Lynn Abrams 9. Vagrants and Beggars in Hitler’s Reich Wolfgang Ayass 10. ‘Law-abiding Germans’? Social Disintegration, Crime and the Reimposition of Order in Post-war Western Germany, 1945-9 Alan Kramer; Contributors; Index