Parchman Farm: Mississippi's State Penitentiary in the 1930s, Paperback - Bryan King

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1900, the Mississippi legislature appropriated funds to purchase approximately 4, 000 acres of farmland in Sunflower County, the hear...

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Reducere. During the Great Depression, young radicals centered in New York City developed a vision of and for America, molded by their understanding of recen...

This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

Reducere. In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic c...

Reducere. During the Great Depression, a sense of total despair plagued the United States. Americans sought a convenient scapegoat and found it in the Mexica...

During the Great Depression, the American South was not merely "the nation's number one economic problem, " as President Franklin Roosevelt declare...

Publisher: Crecy PublishingAuthor(s): Robert W. BerryIllustration(s): 3col.116mono.Number of pages: 52Collection: Classic MarquesPublication date: ...

This book tackles advanced theory and practice for the maritime modeller and the author's own philosophy on model-making. Largely based on the auth...

This Companion explores an extensive range of 1930s authors, contexts, themes, and literary debates. Informed by current scholarly approaches and a...

Reducere. The result of a unique international collaborative investigation by Russian, French, and Swiss scholars into hundreds of private, unpublished diari...

When an old church is torn down in the small Florida town of Toad Springs, a trunk full of stories written by the inhabitants in the 1930s is disco...

Reducere. Chronology of Classic Horror Films: the 1930s is an affectionate, thoughtful, and sometimes provocative re-examination of virtually every American ...

Reducere. Thomas Jefferson developed the idea for the Virginia State Penitentiary and set the standard for the future of the American prison system. Designed...

Reducere. DescriptionWith Universal's release of Dracula on Valentine's Day 1931, the horror film as we know it was born. The following decade saw first a ho...

From AC to Wolseley, this is the illustrated encyclopaedia of every make of British, European and American car sold in Britain during the 1930s.Pub...

Reducere. DescriptionEastern State Penitentiary: A History documents the stories of the men and the method that shaped one of Philadelphia s most recognizabl...

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Reducere. When Jerry Clapp's father became warden of the Idaho State Penitentiary in 1945, the young boy quickly learned the rules and boundaries of roaming ...

Reducere. One tried to swim his way out, masquerading in woman's finery that dragged him beneath the raging waters of the Mississippi River. Others tried to ...

Reducere. Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Missi...

Reducere. On Friday, July 27, 1973, two records were set that day.The temperature climbed to 96 degrees, the hottest day recorded that year, and a riot at th...

Reducere. Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women is the history of how, over a span of two decades, the...

Reducere. Alive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this Depression-era guide to California is more than 700 pages of infor...

Reducere. DescriptionAs Tennessee grew into a modern state, it found itself increasingly beset by crime. In 1831, the legislature approved the construction o...

Neighbours, Distrust, and the State shows that in the past, just like now, many poor people 'wanted something done' by government in their communit...

Reducere. Some King James Bibles say always and others alway. And in places some say stablish while other Bible publishers use establish. And what about thro...

Reducere. Gregory S. Taylor's Central Prison is the first scholarly study to explore the prison's entire history, from its origins in the 1870s to its status...

Sitting on the Farm - Bob King, Bill Slavin

Reducere. Sometimes you have to die in order to live.Big Brother Night. A fraternity pledge. Hazing. Alcohol overindulgence. Blacking out. A traumatic head i...

Crime Fiction from Spain: Murder in the Multinational State provides a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between detective fiction and ...

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Reducere. In fascinating detail, Dying to Tell gives us an in-depth look at different kinds of criminal deaths: ...the absolutely senseless slaying of a youn...

The first in-depth examination of Matisse's work in the 1930s, a key decade of creative innovation and renewal for this celebrated artistPublisher:...

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Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press LtdAuthor(s): Lamont DeHaven KingIllustration(s): maps; mapsNumber of pages: 244Publication date: 2006Dimensions:...

The penitentiary at Deer Lodge, established in 1870, was Montana Territory's first federal facility. In 1889 it became a state penal institution an...