Book Description
Traces the history of crime and punishment from American Colonial times to present day, listing in alphabetical order the states in which the crimes were committed, who committed them and what the punishment was.
Author : Fred Rosen
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1438129858
Traces the history of crime and punishment from American Colonial times to present day, listing in alphabetical order the states in which the crimes were committed, who committed them and what the punishment was.
Author : Linda S. Turnbull
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 14,74 MB
Release : 2000-10-11
Category : Law
ISBN :
Contains maps and articles that provide information on the geographical history of crime, the influence space has on a criminal's motivations, and other geographical aspects of crime.
Author : Jim Hinckley
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0760345430
"A look at 500 of Route 66's most significant past and present sites in seven categories, illustrated with hundreds of photographs and specially commissioned maps"--
Author : Sandra Opdycke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 30,50 MB
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1135264449
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : A. Ray Stephens
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 080618647X
For twenty years the Historical Atlas of Texas stood as a trusted resource for students and aficionados of the state. Now this key reference has been thoroughly updated and expanded—and even rechristened. Texas: A Historical Atlas more accurately reflects the Lone Star State at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Its 86 entries feature 175 newly designed maps—more than twice the number in the original volume—illustrating the most significant aspects of the state’s history, geography, and current affairs. The heart of the book is its wealth of historical information. Sections devoted to indigenous peoples of Texas and its exploration and settlement offer more than 45 entries with visual depictions of everything from the routes of Spanish explorers to empresario grants to cattle trails. In another 31 articles, coverage of modern and contemporary Texas takes in hurricanes and highways, power plants and population trends. Practically everything about this atlas is new. All of the essays have been updated to reflect recent scholarship, while more than 30 appear for the first time, addressing such subjects as the Texas Declaration of Independence, early roads, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, Texas-Oklahoma boundary disputes, and the tideland oil controversy. A dozen new entries for “Contemporary Texas” alone chart aspects of industry, agriculture, and minority demographics. Nearly all of the expanded essays are accompanied by multiple maps—everyone in full color. The most comprehensive, state-of-the-art work of its kind, Texas: A Historical Atlas is more than just a reference. It is a striking visual introduction to the Lone Star State.
Author : Alice K. Flanagan
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 29,30 MB
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780836874266
Describes the different kinds of libraries and the materials that are found in them, the people who work at libraries, the programs that may happen at the library, and the proper behavior for while visiting a library.
Author : Fred Rosen
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 17,44 MB
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1615927565
In this captivating review of the history, the practice, and the industry of cremation in America, award-winning former New York Times columnist Fred Rosen provides an authoritative source of information and many revealing facts about an increasingly common, yet still controversial, alternative to burial. Rosen gives an entertaining first person account of his inquiry into the practice of cremation and its roots. He describes the early ancient custom of cremation by funeral pyre and then explores why the rising Church banned the practice as a sacrilege. He then traces the underpinnings of the modern cremation movement in the late 19th century among a colorful group of intellectuals and physicians. This 19th century group endorsed this then illegal practice as a means to improve public health--as a way to prevent seepage of burial grounds from polluting ground water and spreading disease. Rosen goes on to examine, in today''s world, people''s feelings about death and religion as well as their sensitivities to cremation. Given certain abuses, he believes that this industry needs to be regulated. However, he finds much in favor of cremation when firsthand comparing its costs vs. the excesses and extravagances of the burial funeral industry. In an age when over 25 percent of the population is turning to cremation as a preferred funeral arrangement, this book offers much timely, useful, and engrossing information.
Author : Ken Lizzio
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1493036580
The dramatic story of outlaws and vigilantes on the American frontier invariably calls to mind the Wild West of the latter nineteenth century. Yet, there was an earlier frontier, Illinois, that was every bit as wild and lawless as Dodge City or Tombstone. Between 1835 and 1850 several hundred outlaws and desperadoes descended on the prairie state, holding up stagecoaches, robbing homes and individuals, rustling cattle and horses, counterfeiting, murdering, and terrorizing residents with virtual impunity. In a state that was mostly wilderness, outlaws went undetected for years, often masquerading as law-abiding farmers and merchants while preying on isolated settlers and passing emigrants. If it was hard to detect the pirates, it was harder still to capture them and bring them to justice. With law enforcement incapable of checking outlaws, frustrated citizens eventually took matters into their own hands, administering frontier justice—vigilantism. Posses were formed; outlaws were swept from their lairs and whipped, shot, or hanged. Sometimes the miscreants got their just desserts; other times, the use of public tribunals to enact personal vendettas led to abuses, even chaos. Pirates of the Prairie brings the story of these wild times to life.
Author : Robert Marchant
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 2018-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1476673241
This history of Westchester County, New York, from the time of European settlement to the present, examines four centuries of development in an iconic region that became the archetypal American suburb. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, the author uncovers a complex and often surprising narrative of slavery, anti-Semitism, immigration, Jim Crow, silent film stars, suffragettes, gangland violence, political riots, eccentric millionaires, industry and aviation, man-made disasters and assassinations.
Author : Andrew Frank
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 36,60 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415921411
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.