
Jack the Ripper
The Definitive History
Paul Begg(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 24. April 2016
Book
Hardback
398 pages
978-1-138-14099-8 (ISBN)
Description
'The clearest, most accurate, and most up-to-date account of the Ripper murders, by one of Britain's greatest and most respected experts on the "autumn of terror" in Victorian London.'
William D. Rubenstein, Professor of Modern History, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
England in the 1880s was a society in transition, shedding the skin of Victorianism and moving towards a more modern age. Promiscuity, moral decline, prostitution, unemployment, poverty, police inefficiency... all these things combined to create a feeling of uncertainty and fear.
The East End of London became the focus of that fear. Here lived the uneducated, poverty-ridden and morally destitute masses. When Jack the Ripper walked onto the streets of the East End he came to represent everything that was wrong with the area and with society as a whole. He was fear in a human form, an unknown lurker in the shadows who could cross boundaries and kill.
Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History is not yet another attempt to identify the culprit. Instead, the book sets the murders in their historical context, examining in depth what East London was like in 1888, how it came to be that way, and how events led to one of the most infamous and grisly episodes of the Victorian era.
William D. Rubenstein, Professor of Modern History, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
England in the 1880s was a society in transition, shedding the skin of Victorianism and moving towards a more modern age. Promiscuity, moral decline, prostitution, unemployment, poverty, police inefficiency... all these things combined to create a feeling of uncertainty and fear.
The East End of London became the focus of that fear. Here lived the uneducated, poverty-ridden and morally destitute masses. When Jack the Ripper walked onto the streets of the East End he came to represent everything that was wrong with the area and with society as a whole. He was fear in a human form, an unknown lurker in the shadows who could cross boundaries and kill.
Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History is not yet another attempt to identify the culprit. Instead, the book sets the murders in their historical context, examining in depth what East London was like in 1888, how it came to be that way, and how events led to one of the most infamous and grisly episodes of the Victorian era.
Reviews / Votes
'As good a general account of Jack the Ripper as exists'The Sunday Telegraph
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
General
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
900 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-14099-8 (9781138140998)
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Person
Paul Begg is one of the world's foremost experts on the case of Jack the Ripper. He is the author of Jack the Ripper: The Facts, and co-author of The Jack the Ripper A to Z. He is the Editor of the Ripperologist magazine.
Content
Ch. 1: INTRODUCTION. Ch. 2: THE EAST END. Ch.3: EMMA ELIZABETH SMITH. Ch. 4: THE BITTER CRY. Ch. 5: MARTHA TABRAM. Ch. 6: FLOUNDER AND FUMBLE, AND 'CATCH WHOM YOU CAN!'. Ch.7: THE MAIDEN TRIBUTE. Ch. 8: 'AT THE CRATER OF A VOLCANO'. Ch. 9: ANNIE CHAPMAN. Ch. 10: THE DOUBLE EVENT - ELIZABETH STRIDE. Ch. 11: CATHARINE EDDOWES. Ch. 12: DEAR BOSS. Ch. 13: MARY JANE KELLY. Ch. 14: THE GREAT VICTORIAN MYSTERY: WHO WAS JACK THE RIPPER? Ch. 15: OTHER RIPPER SUSPECTS. INDEX.