An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America, Paperback - Courtney E. Thompson

Reducere. An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century United States, focusing in part...

One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century...

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Lucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth-century America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like Willi...

Reveals how constructions of sovereignty shed light on a host of concerns including regional and sectional tensions; territorial expansion and juri...

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DescriptionTo know the story of Nathan Bangs is to understand American Methodism between the death of Francis Asbury and the Civil War. During the ...

Reducere. In 1832, the captain of the brigantine Catalina ordered Scotsman James Black, dying of typhus, abandoned at Monterey, California. Nursed by J. B. R...

The dome of thought is an accessible and lively history of the Victorian pseudoscience of phrenology. It makes extensive use of the popular account...

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After the Revolution, Americans abandoned the political economy of self-denial and sacrifice that had secured their independence. In its place, the...

Reducere. What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives ...

Zuck argues that, in the decades between the ratification of the Constitution and the publication of Sutton Griggs's novel Imperium in Imperio in 1...

This is the first comprehensive study of John Thomond O'Brien, one of the most significant Irish-born figures in the history of modern South Americ...

Reducere. As the modern celebration of Christmas took shape across the nineteenth century, American writers gave it new meaning in the pages of countless boo...

Reducere. e-artnow present to you this meticulously edited true crime collection: The Bravoes of Market-Drayton The Holocaust of Manor Place The Love Affair ...

Ptrovides a true crime account of religion, mob violence, and vigilante justice in postbellum Georgia.

A cartographic exposition of the 19th century's most dramatic and intriguing murders from the world's most crime-ridden cities and regions.Illustra...

In March 1886 in the quiet town of Eatontown, New Jersey, a brutal beating and rape took place of a young white woman named Angelina Herbert. She i...

Reducere. "Provocative and personally searching" -San Francisco Chronicle One mother's story of enrolling her daughter in a local public school, and the surp...

The Highlands and Islands of Scotland experienced massive changes during the nineteenth century. Economic restructuring, introducing sheep and deer...

Reducere. Brother Athelstan's Canterbury pilgrimage is disrupted by brutal murder in the latest absorbing medieval mystery. Summer, 1381. The Great Revolt ha...

'The Empire Strikes Back?' injects the empire back into the domestic history of modern Britain. It takes as its premise the idea that the empire wa...

In the first half of the nineteenth century, rural New England society underwent a radical transformation as the traditional household economy gave...

AwardsLukas Prize ProjectDescriptionIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, the bestselling author of Home and City Life illuminat...

Based on the authors' thesis (doctoral--University of Exeter, 2012) presented under the title: Arranging the past, reconsidering the present: the e...

This book shows how Alexander von Humboldt's British translators, now largely forgotten figures, were pivotal in moulding his prose and his public ...

Reducere. In the mid-nineteenth century, James Wickham was a wealthy farmer with a large estate in Cutchogue, Long Island. His extensive property included a ...

Reducere. From the king of ``Gonzo`` journalism and bestselling author who brought you Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas comes another astonishing volume of let...

Midwife Sarah Brandt and private detective Frank Malloy return to investigate a death in the field of higher learning in this Gaslight Mystery from...

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University PressAuthor(s): Jean-Marie FecteauNumber of pages: 448Collection: Studies on the History of Quebec/Etudes d'hi...

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DescriptionAlthough we are used to thinking of science and the humanities as separate disciplines, in the nineteenth century this division was not ...

Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. Lond...

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In national bestselling author Victoria Thompson's Gaslight mysteries, the residents of nineteenth-century New York City turn to midwife Sarah Bran...

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This introductory book offers a coherent history of twentieth century crime and the law in Britain, with chapters on topics ranging from homicide t...

This book examines the relationship between politics, crime, and violence in Latin America with the aim of moving away from overly simplified views...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Stana NenadicIllustration(s): 15 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 272Publication date...