New Babylon New Nineveh: Everyday life on the Witwatersand 1886–1914, a social and economic history of the late nineteenth/early twentieth century
Witwatersrand
The Fox and the Flies (2007), a social, political, and economic history of the Trans-Atlantic underworld from about 1890 until 1918, the year
Joseph Silver was executed by the Austro-Hungarian military, in which Van Onselen speculates that Silver could have been
Jack the Ripper[6]
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