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Book Franklin County Virginia Excerpts from Court Order Books 12

Download or read book Franklin County Virginia Excerpts from Court Order Books 12 written by Beverly Merritt and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indigent Families of Franklin County

Download or read book Indigent Families of Franklin County written by Franklin County (Va.) and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Homicide

    American Homicide

    Book Details:
  • Author : Randolph Roth
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2010-02-15
  • ISBN : 0674054547
  • Pages : 672 pages

Download or read book American Homicide written by Randolph Roth and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In American Homicide, Randolph Roth charts changes in the character and incidence of homicide in the U.S. from colonial times to the present. Roth argues that the United States is distinctive in its level of violence among unrelated adults—friends, acquaintances, and strangers. America was extraordinarily homicidal in the mid-seventeenth century, but it became relatively non-homicidal by the mid-eighteenth century, even in the slave South; and by the early nineteenth century, rates in the North and the mountain South were extremely low. But the homicide rate rose substantially among unrelated adults in the slave South after the American Revolution; and it skyrocketed across the United States from the late 1840s through the mid-1870s, while rates in most other Western nations held steady or fell. That surge—and all subsequent increases in the homicide rate—correlated closely with four distinct phenomena: political instability; a loss of government legitimacy; a loss of fellow-feeling among members of society caused by racial, religious, or political antagonism; and a loss of faith in the social hierarchy. Those four factors, Roth argues, best explain why homicide rates have gone up and down in the United States and in other Western nations over the past four centuries, and why the United States is today the most homicidal affluent nation.

Book Weirding the War

    Weirding the War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen William Berry
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0820334138
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Weirding the War written by Stephen William Berry and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It is well that war is so terrible,” Robert E. Lee reportedly said, “or we would grow too fond of it.” The essays collected here make the case that we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we must make the war ter­rible again. Taking a “freakonomics” approach to Civil War studies, each contributor uses a seemingly unusual story, incident, or phenomenon to cast new light on the nature of the war itself. Collectively the essays remind us that war is always about damage, even at its most heroic and even when certain people and things deserve to be damaged. Here then is not only the grandness of the Civil War but its more than occasional littleness. Here are those who profited by the war and those who lost by it—and not just those who lost all save their honor, but those who lost their honor too. Here are the cowards, the coxcombs, the belles, the deserters, and the scavengers who hung back and so survived, even thrived. Here are dark topics like torture, hunger, and amputation. Here, in short, is war.

Book Smull s Legislative Hand Book and Manual of the State of Pennsylvania

Download or read book Smull s Legislative Hand Book and Manual of the State of Pennsylvania written by John Augustus Smull and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prices of Clothing

Download or read book Prices of Clothing written by John M. Curran and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Collector

Download or read book The Collector written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 1786 1788

    1786 1788

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Washington
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1925
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book 1786 1788 written by George Washington and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary of American Biography Including Men of the Time

Download or read book Dictionary of American Biography Including Men of the Time written by Francis Samuel Drake and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary of American Biography Including Men of the Time Containing Nearly Ten Thousand Notices of Persons of Both Sexes of Native of Foreign Birth who Have Been Remarkable Or Prominently Connected with the Arts Sciences Literature Politics Or History of the American Continent

Download or read book Dictionary of American Biography Including Men of the Time Containing Nearly Ten Thousand Notices of Persons of Both Sexes of Native of Foreign Birth who Have Been Remarkable Or Prominently Connected with the Arts Sciences Literature Politics Or History of the American Continent written by Francis Samuel Drake and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: