Volume III of this acclaimed history casts light on life across the globe - from Canadian and Australian settlers, London cockneys, and American schoolboys to New York ganglang, the narcotics trade, and the entertainment business. A book for everyone interested in language, lexicography, class,.poverty, sexuality, and the criminal underworld.

Introduction 1. John Camden Hotten 2. International Slang Dictionaries of the 1880s and 1890s 3. Farmer and Henley's Slang and its Analogues 4. Other British General Slang Dictionaries 5. British School and University Glossaries 6. Australian Slang Dictionaries 7. Dictionaries of General American Slang 8. American School and University Glossaries 9. Dictionaries of First World War Slang 10. Dictionaries of Homelessness 11. Dictionaries of Crime 12. Glossaries of the Entertainment Industries Conclusion Appendix

Julie Coleman , University of Leicester

`Review from previous edition A fascinating glimpse into a world in which a secret language was at once menacing and thrilling.' TLS |d 11/02/2005