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Book Synopsis Execution and Invention by : Beth A. Berkowitz
Download or read book Execution and Invention written by Beth A. Berkowitz and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-03-23 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beth Berkowitz explores modern scholarship on the ancient Rabbinic death penalty and offers a fresh perspective using the approaches of ritual studies, cultural criticism and Talmudic source criticism. She argues that the death penalty was used by the early Rabbis in an attempt to assert their authority.
Book Synopsis Execution and Invention by : Beth A. Berkowitz
Download or read book Execution and Invention written by Beth A. Berkowitz and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beth Berkowitz explores modern scholarship on the ancient Rabbinic death penalty and offers a fresh perspective using the approaches of ritual studies, cultural criticism and Talmudic source criticism. She argues that the death penalty was used by the early Rabbis in an attempt to assert their authority.
Book Synopsis Masters of Death by : Richard Rhodes
Download or read book Masters of Death written by Richard Rhodes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Masters of Death, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen’s role in the Holocaust. These “special task forces,” organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into eastern Poland and Russia, were the agents of the first phase of the Final Solution. They murdered more than 1.5 million men, women, and children between 1941 and 1943, often by shooting them into killing pits, as at Babi Yar. These massive crimes have been generally overlooked or underestimated by Holocaust historians, who have focused on the gas chambers. In this painstaking account, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes profiles the eastern campaign’s architects as well as its “ordinary” soldiers and policemen, and helps us understand how such men were conditioned to carry out mass murder. Marshaling a vast array of documents and the testimony of perpetrators and survivors, this book is an essential contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and World War II.
Book Synopsis Executioner's Current by : Richard Moran
Download or read book Executioner's Current written by Richard Moran and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "fascinating and provocative" story (The Washington Post) of high stakes competition between two titans that shows how the electric chair developed through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the other. In 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the “age of electricity” when he illuminated Manhattan’s Pearl Street with his direct current (DC) system. Six years later, George Westinghouse lit up Buffalo with his less expensive alternating current (AC). The two men quickly became locked in a fierce rivalry, made all the more complicated by a novel new application for their product: the electric chair. When Edison set out to persuade the state of New York to use Westinghouse’s current to execute condemned criminals, Westinghouse fought back in court, attempting to stop the first electrocution and keep AC from becoming the “executioner’s current.” In this meticulously researched account of the ensuing legal battle and the horribly botched first execution, Moran raises disturbing questions not only about electrocution, but about about our society’s tendency to rely on new technologies to answer moral questions.
Author :Riverside Louis P. Masur Professor of History University of California Publisher :Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 13 :0198021585 Total Pages :222 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (98 download)
Book Synopsis Rites of Execution : Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865 by : Riverside Louis P. Masur Professor of History University of California
Download or read book Rites of Execution : Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865 written by Riverside Louis P. Masur Professor of History University of California and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989-02-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, Western societies abandoned public executions in favor of private punishments, primarily confinement in penitentiaries and private executions. The transition, guided by a reconceptualization of the causes of crime, the nature of authority, and the purposes of punishment, embodied the triumph of new sensibilities and the reconstitution of cultural values throughout the Western world. This study examines the conflict over capital punishment in the United States and the way it transformed American culture between the Revolution and the Civil War. Relating the gradual shift in rituals of punishment and attitudes toward discipline to the emergence of a middle class culture that valued internal restraints and private punishments, Masur traces the changing configuration of American criminal justice. He examines the design of execution day in the Revolutionary era as a spectacle of civil and religious order, the origins of organized opposition to the death penalty and the invention of the penitentiary, the creation of private executions, reform organizations' commitment to social activism, and the competing visions of humanity and society lodged at the core of the debate over capital punishment. A fascinating and thoughtful look at a topic that remains of burning interest today, Rites of Execution will attract a wide range of scholarly and general readers.
Book Synopsis The Romance of Invention by : James Burnley
Download or read book The Romance of Invention written by James Burnley and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Invention of Murder by : Judith Flanders
Download or read book The Invention of Murder written by Judith Flanders and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Superb... Flanders's convincing and smart synthesis of the evolution of an official police force, fictional detectives, and real-life cause célèbres will appeal to devotees of true crime and detective fiction alike." -Publishers Weekly, starred review In this fascinating exploration of murder in nineteenth century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, opera, and melodrama-even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other-the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P.D. James and Patricia Cornwell. In this meticulously researched and engrossing book, Judith Flanders retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder in Great Britain, both famous and obscure: from Greenacre, who transported his dismembered fiancée around town by omnibus, to Burke and Hare's bodysnatching business in Edinburgh; from the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper, to the tragedy of the murdered Marr family in London's East End. Through these stories of murder-from the brutal to the pathetic-Flanders builds a rich and multi-faceted portrait of Victorian society in Great Britain. With an irresistible cast of swindlers, forgers, and poisoners, the mad, the bad and the utterly dangerous, The Invention of Murder is both a mesmerizing tale of crime and punishment, and history at its most readable.
Book Synopsis William Blake on His Poetry and Painting by : Hazard Adams
Download or read book William Blake on His Poetry and Painting written by Hazard Adams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blake was not only a poet, but also a prolific commentator on both his own art and art in general. This is the first text to discuss all of the writings except the annotations to Reynolds' Discourses, covered in a previous volume, Blake's Margins (McFarland, 2009). Topics include his opinions on his predecessors and his contemporaries, his reaction to critics, and his artistic intentions. This valuable addition to Blake scholarship includes reproductions of some of the drawings and paintings in Blake's one exhibition of 1809, plus reproductions of other prose texts by Blake.
Book Synopsis Specifications of Inventions... by : Great Britain. Patent Office
Download or read book Specifications of Inventions... written by Great Britain. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis English Patents of Inventions, Specifications by :
Download or read book English Patents of Inventions, Specifications written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Northeastern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and Court of Appeals of New York; May/July 1891-Mar./Apr. 1936, Appellate Court of Indiana; Dec. 1926/Feb. 1927-Mar./Apr. 1936, Courts of Appeals of Ohio.
Book Synopsis Invention as a Social Act by : Karen Burke LeFevre
Download or read book Invention as a Social Act written by Karen Burke LeFevre and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the work of rhetoricians, philosophers, linguists, and theorists in other disciplines, Karen Burke LeFevre challenges a widely-held view of rhetorical invention as the act of an atomistic individual. She proposes that invention be viewed as a social act, in which individuals interact dialectically with society and culture in distinctive ways.
Book Synopsis An argument to prove that death is not obligatory on Christians, with notes by T.D. Gregg by : John Asgill
Download or read book An argument to prove that death is not obligatory on Christians, with notes by T.D. Gregg written by John Asgill and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Make-overs from Coats and Suits by : Clarice Louisba Scott
Download or read book Make-overs from Coats and Suits written by Clarice Louisba Scott and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Directory of U.S. Register of Merit Sires and Dams Qualifying Under the National Poultry Improvement Plan, 1942-43 by : Betty Thomas Richardson
Download or read book Directory of U.S. Register of Merit Sires and Dams Qualifying Under the National Poultry Improvement Plan, 1942-43 written by Betty Thomas Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication provides some information of a nation-wide survey to determine the importance of butter as a source of vitamin A in the diet of the people of the United States.
Book Synopsis The Haarlem Legend of the Invention of Printing by : Lourens Janszoon Coster
Download or read book The Haarlem Legend of the Invention of Printing written by Lourens Janszoon Coster and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Book Synopsis The Haarlem Legend of the Invention of Printing by Lourens Janszoon Coster by : Antonius Van Der Linde
Download or read book The Haarlem Legend of the Invention of Printing by Lourens Janszoon Coster written by Antonius Van Der Linde and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
