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 crimininalis shows the emergence of modern society through the evolution of the underworld and its crimes. From Chinese banditryx and eighteen-century English tea smuggling to today’s cocaine submarines and the high-tech crimes of tormorrow, this book shows us how the world’s dark underbelly shapes us, no matter how we try to outpace it.
