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Book Who Killed Mr  Crittenden

Download or read book Who Killed Mr Crittenden written by Kenneth Church Lamott and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Who Killed Mr  Crittenden

Download or read book Who Killed Mr Crittenden written by Kenneth Church Lamott and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True account of the notorious murder that stunned San Francisco in 1870 - the Laura D. Fair case.

Book Women Who Kill Men

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gordon Morris Bakken
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0803226578
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Women Who Kill Men written by Gordon Morris Bakken and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a revolutionary period in the lives of women, and the shifting perceptions of women and their role in society were equally apparent in the courtroom. Women Who Kill Men examines eighteen sensational cases of women on trial for murder from 1870 to 1958. The fascinating details of these murder trials, documented in court records and embellished newspaper coverage, mirrored the changing public image of women. Although murder was clearly outside the norm for standard female behavior, most women and their attorneys relied on gendered stereotypes and language to create their defense and sometimes to leverage their status in a patriarchal system. Those who could successfully dress and act the part of the victim were most often able to win the sympathies of the jury. Gender mattered. And though the norms shifted over time, the press, attorneys, and juries were all informed by contemporary gender stereotypes.

Book Official Report of the Trial of L  D  F  for the Murder of A  P  Crittenden  Etc

Download or read book Official Report of the Trial of L D F for the Murder of A P Crittenden Etc written by Laura D. Fair and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Official Report of the Trial of John O Neil for the Murder of Hattie Evelyn McCloud  in the Superior Court of Massachusetts  From Notes of the Official Stenograhers  Published by the Attorney general

Download or read book The Official Report of the Trial of John O Neil for the Murder of Hattie Evelyn McCloud in the Superior Court of Massachusetts From Notes of the Official Stenograhers Published by the Attorney general written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of John J  Crittenden

Download or read book The Life of John J Crittenden written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original. 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.

Book The Life of John J  Crittenden

Download or read book The Life of John J Crittenden written by Mrs. Chapman Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of John J  Crittenden

Download or read book The Life of John J Crittenden written by Chapman Coleman and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-12-26 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Book The Trials of Laura Fair

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carole Haber
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2013-08-01
  • ISBN : 146960759X
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book The Trials of Laura Fair written by Carole Haber and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 3, 1870, on a San Francisco ferry, Laura Fair shot a bullet into the heart of her married lover, A. P. Crittenden. Throughout her two murder trials, Fair's lawyers, supported by expert testimony from physicians, claimed that the shooting was the result of temporary insanity caused by a severely painful menstrual cycle. The first jury disregarded such testimony, choosing instead to focus on Fair's disreputable character. In the second trial, however, an effective defense built on contemporary medical beliefs and gendered stereotypes led to a verdict that shocked Americans across the country. In this rousing history, Carole Haber probes changing ideas about morality and immorality, masculinity and femininity, love and marriage, health and disease, and mental illness to show that all these concepts were reinvented in the Victorian West. Haber's book examines the era's most controversial issues, including suffrage, the gendered courts, women's physiology, and free love. This notorious story enriches our understanding of Victorian society, opening the door to a discussion about the ways in which reputation, especially female reputation, is shaped.

Book The Many Legends of Jesse James

Download or read book The Many Legends of Jesse James written by Phillip J. Morledge and published by Phillip Morledge. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Jesse James is shrouded in conflict. The conflict of the American Civil War and the conflict between those who saw a folk hero and those who saw a ruthless killer. This new collection brings together three classic biographies of the most infamous outlaw of the west.

Book The Life of John J  Crittenden

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann Mary Butler Crittenden Coleman ("Mrs. Chapman Coleman, ")
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1873
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 806 pages

Download or read book The Life of John J Crittenden written by Ann Mary Butler Crittenden Coleman ("Mrs. Chapman Coleman, ") and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crime And Punishment In American History

Download or read book Crime And Punishment In American History written by Lawrence M. Friedman and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1994-09-09 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned a system of crime and punishment in its own image.

Book Woman Lawyer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara Babcock
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2011-01-05
  • ISBN : 0804743584
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Woman Lawyer written by Barbara Babcock and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woman Lawyer tells the story of Clara Foltz, the first woman admitted to the California Bar. Famous in her time as a jury lawyer, public intellectual, leader of the women's movement, inventor of the role of public defender, and legal reformer, Foltz has been largely forgotten until recently. Woman Lawyer not only recreates her eventful life, but also casts new light on the turbulent history and politics of the late nineteenth century and the many links binding the women's rights movement with other reform movements.

Book Please  General Custer  I Don t Want to Go

Download or read book Please General Custer I Don t Want to Go written by Russell W. Estlack and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These entertaining stories from Old West history include cowboys, Indians, lawmen, lawbreakers, entertainers, prostitutes, priests, and politicians. They all helped shape the myth and legend of the American West. This book reveals the stories of characters like Mary Fields, Cleophas Dowd, and Judge Roy Bean, and offers glimpses of gunfights, holdups, mining claim battles, and more.

Book The Crimes of Womanhood

Download or read book The Crimes of Womanhood written by A. Cheree Carlson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural views of femininity exerted a powerful influence on the courtroom arguments used to defend or condemn notable women on trial in nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century America. By examining the colorful rhetorical strategies employed by lawyers and reporters of women's trials in newspaper articles, trial transcriptions, and popular accounts, A. Cheree Carlson argues that the men in charge of these communication avenues were able to transform their own values and morals into believable narratives that persuaded judges, juries, and the general public of a woman's guilt or innocence. Carlson analyzes the situations of several women of varying historical stature, from the insanity trials of Mary Todd Lincoln and Lizzie Borden's trial for the brutal slaying of her father and stepmother, to lesser-known trials involving insanity, infidelity, murder, abortion, and interracial marriage. The insanity trial of Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard, the wife of a minister, resulted from her attempts to change her own religion, while a jury acquitted Mary Harris for killing her married lover, suggesting that loss of virginity to an adulterous man was justifiable grounds for homicide. The popular conception of abortion as a "woman's crime" came to the fore in the case of Ann Loman (also known as Madame Restell), who performed abortions in New York both before and after it became a crime. Finally, Alice Rhinelander was sued for fraud by her new husband Leonard for "passing" as white, but the jury was more moved by the notion of Alice being betrayed as a woman by her litigious husband than by the supposed defrauding of Leonard as a white male. Alice won the case, but the image of womanhood as in need of sympathy and protection won out as well. At the heart of these cases, Carlson reveals clearly just how narrow was the line that women had to walk, since the same womanly virtues that were expected of them--passivity, frailty, and purity--could be turned against them at any time. These trials of popular status are especially significant because they reflect the attitudes of the broad audience, indicate which forms of knowledge are easily manipulated, and allow us to analyze how the verdict is argued outside the courtroom in the public and press. With gripping retellings and incisive analysis of these scandalous criminal and civil cases, this book will appeal to historians, rhetoricians, feminist researchers, and anyone who enjoys courtroom drama.

Book Instant Cities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gunther Paul Barth
  • Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN : 0195018990
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Instant Cities written by Gunther Paul Barth and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of the Oxford U. Press edition of 1975 with a new introduction (20 p.). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR