Butchery On Bond Street

Author : Benjamin P. Feldman
Publisher : New York Wanderer Press
ISBN 13 : 9780979517501
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Butchery on Bond Street written by Benjamin P. Feldman and published by New York Wanderer Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1857 Dr. Harvey Burdell, a young dentist, was murdered; his lover, Emma Hempstead Cunningham, a widow with five children, was accused of his brutal murder. Feldman presents a well-researched book that explores the gender politics and legal aspects of the dentist's murder and Emma Cunningham's trial.

Author : Brian Jenkins
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476638284
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trial of Emma Cunningham written by Brian Jenkins and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:  The alleged 1857 murder of a wealthy Bond Street dentist by Emma Cunningham, a mature widow he was believed to be sexually involved with, served to distract many New Yorkers from the deepening national crisis over slavery in the United States. Public anxieties seemed well founded--domestic murders committed by women were believed to be increasing sharply, jeopardizing society's patriarchal structure. The penny press created public demand for a swift solution. The inadequacy of the city police, complicated by the state's decision to install a new force, resulted in the rival forces battling it out on the streets. Elected coroners conducting inquests, and elected D.A.s prosecuting alleged culprits, fed a tendency to rush to judgment. New York juries, all men, were reluctant to send a middle class woman to the gallows. At trial, Cunningham proved a formidable and imaginative member of the so-called weaker sex and was acquitted. This reexamination places the story in its social and political context.

Author : Wilbur R. Miller
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483305937
Total Pages : 4161 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America written by Wilbur R. Miller and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 4161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several encyclopedias overview the contemporary system of criminal justice in America, but full understanding of current social problems and contemporary strategies to deal with them can come only with clear appreciation of the historical underpinnings of those problems. Thus, this five-volume work surveys the history and philosophy of crime, punishment, and criminal justice institutions in America from colonial times to the present. It covers the whole of the criminal justice system, from crimes, law enforcement and policing, to courts, corrections and human services. Among other things, this encyclopedia: explicates philosophical foundations underpinning our system of justice; charts changing patterns in criminal activity and subsequent effects on legal responses; identifies major periods in the development of our system of criminal justice; and explores in the first four volumes - supplemented by a fifth volume containing annotated primary documents - evolving debates and conflicts on how best to address issues of crime and punishment. Its signed entries in the first four volumes--supplemented by a fifth volume containing annotated primary documents--provide the historical context for students to better understand contemporary criminological debates and the contemporary shape of the U.S. system of law and justice.

Author : David B. Sachsman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351491466
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensationalism written by David B. Sachsman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David B. Sachsman and David W. Bulla have gathered a colourful collection of essays exploring sensationalism in nineteenth-century newspaper reporting. The contributors analyse the role of sensationalism and tell the story of both the rise of the penny press in the 1830s and the careers of specific editors and reporters dedicated to this particular journalistic style.Divided into four sections, the first, titled "The Many Faces of Sensationalism," provides an eloquent Defense of yellow journalism, analyses the place of sensational pictures, and provides a detailed examination of the changes in reporting over a twenty-year span. The second part, "Mudslinging, Muckraking, Scandals, and Yellow Journalism," focuses on sensationalism and the American presidency as well as why journalistic muckraking came to fruition in the Progressive Era.The third section, "Murder, Mayhem, Stunts, Hoaxes, and Disasters," features a ground-breaking discussion of the place of religion and death in nineteenth-century newspapers. The final section explains the connection between sensationalism and hatred. This is a must-read book for any historian, journalist, or person interested in American culture.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Braby's Central and East African Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nigel Blundell
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1848847378
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Serial Killers: Butchers & Cannibals written by Nigel Blundell and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body snatcher who inspired Psycho, the noblewoman known as Countess Dracula, Jack the Ripper, and other killers for whom murder was just the beginning. From Gilles de Rais’ castle in fifteenth-century France to “the Bloody Benders’” eighteenth-century Kansas farm to Jeffrey Dahmer’s quiet apartment in twentieth-century Milwaukee, history is littered with serial murderers whose first impulse was to take a life. For some, it was never enough. The real thrill came after their victims were dead. In this shocking anthology, true crime journalist Nigel Blundell brings together more than two dozen chilling profiles of the world’s most unforgettable fiends, including: Ed Gein, the Plainfield necrophile and inspiration for The Silence of the Lambs; Andrei Chikatilo, the “Rostov Ripper”, whose uncontrollable hunger was satiated by more that fifty victims; Dennis Nilsen, whose London house of horrors so overflowed with body parts that they blocked the drains; Germany’s Fritz Haarmann who killed and consumed more than two dozen men, then peddled the left-over meat on the black market; Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory whose lust for the blood of virgins—a body count estimated to be in the hundreds—has branded her the most prolific female serial killer in world history; and many more human monsters whose appetites are still the stuff of nightmares.

Author : Charles Allston Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cruise Upon Wheels written by Charles Allston Collins and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
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Download or read book The Salisbury Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Desmond Whyman
Publisher : Nottingham University Press
ISBN 13 : 1907284737
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoulder of Mutton Field written by Desmond Whyman and published by Nottingham University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from technical and privately published family histories, this remarkable account provides a broad understanding of the development of the meat industry utilizing England’s Kentish Town as a model. With research on the decline of retail butcher shops from 45,000 in 1945 to fewer than 6,000 in 2010, this record not only describes the expertise and skill required of each trade associated with the meat industry but also catalogs how social changes impacted the business.

Author : Brian Jenkins
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773596364
Total Pages : 669 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord Lyons written by Brian Jenkins and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British ambassador in Washington during the US Civil War and ambassador in Paris before and after the Franco-Prussian war, Lord Lyons (1817-1887) was one of the most important diplomats of the Victorian period. Although frequently featured in histories of the United States and Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century, and in discussions and analyses of British foreign policy, he has remained an ill-defined figure. In Lord Lyons: A Diplomat in an Age of Nationalism and War, Brian Jenkins explains the man and examines his career. Based on a staggering study of primary sources, he presents a convincing portrait of a subject who rarely revealed himself personally. Though he avoided publicity, Lyons came to be regarded as his nation's premier diplomat as his career took him to the heart of the great international issues and crises of his generation. As minister to the United States he played a vital role in preserving Anglo-American peace and was a powerful voice opposing Anglo-French intervention in the Civil War. While ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, he helped to prevent French control of the Suez Canal then under construction. In France, he maintained an amiable and constructive relationship with a bitter nation struggling to reorganize itself and its constitution after the Franco-Prussian War. For many historians Lord Lyons has been difficult to ignore but hard to admire. In rescuing him as a truly important historical figure, Jenkins details for the first time the personal and public strategies Lyons employed through decades of exemplary diplomatic service on both sides of the Atlantic.