Whipping Post
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Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
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ISBN : 0595306128
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Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
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ISBN : 0595306128
Author : Robert Graham Caldwell
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1512815071
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author : John Grenier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,44 MB
Release : 2005-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139444705
This 2005 book explores the evolution of Americans' first way of war, to show how war waged against Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resources became the method early Americans employed and, ultimately, defined their military heritage. The sanguinary story of the American conquest of the Indian peoples east of the Mississippi River helps demonstrate how early Americans embraced warfare shaped by extravagant violence and focused on conquest. Grenier provides a major revision in understanding the place of warfare directed on noncombatants in the American military tradition, and his conclusions are relevant to understand US 'special operations' in the War on Terror.
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Publisher : US History Publishers
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 1937
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ISBN : 1603540385
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Page : 710 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Periodicals
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Page : 426 pages
File Size : 31,55 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Law
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Page : 786 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 1879
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Author : Anne-Marie Cusac
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0300155492
The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America’s imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward criminals and punishment? What does it say about us? This book explores the cultural evolution of punishment practices in the United States. Anne-Marie Cusac first looks at punishment in the nation’s early days, when Americans repudiated Old World cruelty toward criminals and emphasized rehabilitation over retribution. This attitude persisted for some 200 years, but in recent decades we have abandoned it, Cusac shows. She discusses the dramatic rise in the use of torture and restraint, corporal and capital punishment, and punitive physical pain. And she links this new climate of punishment to shifts in other aspects of American culture, including changes in dominant religious beliefs, child-rearing practices, politics, television shows, movies, and more. America now punishes harder and longer and with methods we would have rejected as cruel and unusual not long ago. These changes are profound, their impact affects all our lives, and we have yet to understand the full consequences.
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Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 1896
Category : United States
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Page : 532 pages
File Size : 22,42 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Prisons
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