Homo criminalis : how organised crime organises the world / Mark Galeotti.

Galeotti, Mark, author

London : Ebury Press, 2025.

320 pages ; 24 cm

When does a bandit become a monarch? When does a gang become a government? And is organised crime at the heart of every modern state?On a thrilling whistle-stop tour of how the world's criminal underbelly has shaped state-making, capitalism, globalisation and all forms of so-called legitimate power, 'Homo Criminalis' shows the emergence of modern society through the evolution of the underworld and its crimes. From Chinese banditry and eighteenth-century English tea smuggling to today's cocaine submarines and the high-tech crimes of tomorrow, it shows us how the world's dark underbelly shapes us, no matter how we try to outpace it.

9781529148220 (hbk)

364.106

HV6441

364.106

English

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