Melancholy Accidents

Author : Carolyn Conley
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739100073
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melancholy Accidents written by Carolyn Conley and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most scholarly attention on violence in post-famine Ireland has focused on political crimes, this book examines non-political violence, which made up the vast majority of incidents in that period. Ireland's overall crime rate was below that of England and Wales, but the proportion of violent offenses to non-violent ones was significantly higher in Ireland. In Melancholy Accidents, Carolyn Conley decries the commonly-held belief that recreational and domestic violence was generally the result of understandable emotions. Conley demonstrates that the meaning of violence in post-famine Ireland was complex, personal, and often deeply traditional and idiosyncratic. This unique book will be valuable to a wide variety of scholars, including those who study women's history, European history, and social problems.

Author : Peter Manseau
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612195075
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melancholy Accidents written by Peter Manseau and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that fatal gun mishaps have been so common in America that for centuries, newspapers carried regular columns reporting on “melancholy accidents”? It came as a surprising discovery when, while conducting research that involved reading colonial-era newspapers, acclaimed writer Peter Manseau stumbled upon one report after another of “melancholy accidents”—instances of local people accidentally discharging firearms to disastrous results. Usually, they were brief items, with the concision of dark poetry—hunting accidents, neighbor shooting neighbor, father shooting son. Dark as they were, they were also often bizarre and fascinating—such as the case of one farmer who, trying out his new musket, shot it at his barn, hitting a door hinge that split the musket ball in two, with each half ricochetting off to hit a different, distant person, each of whom was a doctor. In Melancholy Accidents, Manseau collects and annotates a wide-ranging assortment of these woebegone and oddly intimate reports, with numerous illustrations, photos, and visuals from original period newspapers. It makes for a wholly unique contribution to the ongoing consideration of—and the recent heated discussion about—the historic place of firearms in American society.

Author : Michelle McCann
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1781178798
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melancholy Madness (A Coroners Casebook) written by Michelle McCann and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2004-02-27 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bizarre tales of murder and investigation in the drumlins, valleys and towns of Monaghan in the nineteenth century, based upon a casebook just recently discovered that has never been lodged in any archive anywhere. This is NEW information and highlights such cases as: The Illigitimate Half-Sisters Of Oscar Wilde - Emily and Mary Wilde died tragically at Drumaconner House while dancing by the fire - their deaths are kept quiet so as not to shame Sir William Wilde. The Legend Of The Sleepwalking Nun - Sister Mary Keogh is discovered drowned in the Convent lake near the Crannog - to this day, local legend tells the story of her death.

Author : Robert Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior written by Robert Burton and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Yamane
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476695873
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gun Curious written by David Yamane and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-06-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than ever, it feels like cultural and political divisions over firearms are tearing the United States apart. Guns are an undeniable and contradictory presence in America, both widely owned and controversial. This book does something remarkable: it promotes insight over animosity in understanding the complex reality of guns in America. It challenges firearms skeptics, entertains enthusiasts, and informs the uncommitted by taking readers on a surprising journey inside gun culture. A lifelong liberal from the San Francisco Bay Area, David Yamane became a new gun owner as a 42-year-old and embarked on an immersive twelve-year study of American gun culture. Weaving together his personal experiences and sociological observations to explain why guns make sense to those who own them, he illuminates defensive gun ownership, the risk of negative outcomes associated with firearms, and what responsible gun ownership looks like in the twenty-first century. This book lowers the heat on America's inflamed arguments about firearms and models the civil discussions we desperately need.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Author : Victoria. Department of Mines and Water Supply
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Secretary for Mines and Water Supply ... written by Victoria. Department of Mines and Water Supply and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
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Download or read book Melancholy Anatomised written by Robert Burton and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
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Download or read book The Anatomy of Melancholy written by Robert Burton and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert BURTON (Author of “The Anatomy of Melancholy.”.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of Melancholy ... A New Edition, Corrected and Enriched by Translations of the Numerous Classical Extracts by Democritus Minor written by Robert BURTON (Author of “The Anatomy of Melancholy.”.) and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: