Introduction -- The 'King of all burglars' -- A.J. Raffles -- Marvellous Mrs Raffles? -- The cat burglar as London's rooftop threat -- Burglary insurance and the culture of fear -- Designing the burglar-proof home -- Defying the burglar in post-war London -- Spy-burglars and secrets in the Cold War capital -- Epilogue
Summary
Lurking in the shadowy depths of the night-time city, burglars inspired both fear and fascination during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Night Raiders is the first history of burglary in modern Britain, exploring how burglary fundamentally reshaped the meanings of 'home' and urban lifestyles during this important period of change
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title page from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed March 20, 2020)
