Cultures of Darkness: Night Travels in the Histories of Trangression

by Bryan D. Palmer

Book Overview

Peasants, religious heretics, witches, pirates, runaway slaves, prostitutes and pornographers, frequenters of taverns and fraternal society lodge rooms, revolutionaries, blues and jazz musicians, beats, and contemporary youth gangs--those who defied authority, choosing to live outside the defining cultural dominions of early insurgent and, later, dominant capitalism are what Bryan D. Palmer calls people of the night. These lives of opposition,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583670270
• ISBN13: 9781583670279
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"