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Book The Knickerbacker

Download or read book The Knickerbacker written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dogopolis

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  • Author : Chris Pearson
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2021-08-31
  • ISBN : 022679704X
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Dogopolis written by Chris Pearson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dogopolis presents a surprising source for urban innovation in the history of three major cities: human-canine relationships. Stroll through any American or European city today and you probably won’t get far before seeing a dog being taken for a walk. It’s expected that these domesticated animals can easily navigate sidewalks, streets, and other foundational elements of our built environment. But what if our cities were actually shaped in response to dogs more than we ever realized? Chris Pearson’s Dogopolis boldly and convincingly asserts that human-canine relations were a crucial factor in the formation of modern urban living. Focusing on New York, London, and Paris from the early nineteenth century into the 1930s, Pearson shows that human reactions to dogs significantly remolded them and other contemporary western cities. It’s an unalterable fact that dogs—often filthy, bellicose, and sometimes off-putting—run away, spread rabies, defecate, and breed wherever they like, so as dogs became a more and more common in nineteenth-century middle-class life, cities had to respond to people’s fear of them and revulsion at their least desirable traits. The gradual integration of dogs into city life centered on disgust at dirt, fear of crime and vagrancy, and the promotion of humanitarian sentiments. On the other hand, dogs are some people’s most beloved animal companions, and human compassion and affection for pets and strays were equally powerful forces in shaping urban modernity. Dogopolis details the complex interrelations among emotions, sentiment, and the ways we manifest our feelings toward what we love—showing that together they can actually reshape society.

Book The rise of devils

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  • Author : James Crossland
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2023-01-31
  • ISBN : 1526160684
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book The rise of devils written by James Crossland and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Punctuated by the stories of a host of interesting and extraordinary characters, Crossland has produced a fascinating exploration of the long nineteenth century’s development of terrorism and counterterrorism, highlighting the role of fear and the paranoia, repression, and overreaction it engendered.' Michael Stohl, Professor at the University of California Author of Crime and Terrorism 'By applying an innovative historical lens, The Rise of the Devils by James Crossland offers a remarkable perspective on the history of terrorism that is not overdetermined by the events of 9/11 and explores a "violent strain of nihilism intoxicated by a whiff of martyrdom." The book reads like the prequel to the "National Treasure" movie franchise and offers a completely unique understanding of Terrorism’s First Wave.' Mia Bloom, Georgia State University Author of Dying to Kill: the Allure of Suicide Terror In the dying light of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Much like today, this was a time of progress and dread, in which breakthroughs in communications and weapons were made, political reforms were implemented and immigration waves bolstered the populations of ever-expanding cities. This era also simmered with political rage and social inequalities, which drove nationalists, nihilists, anarchists and republicans to dynamite cities and discharge pistols into the bodies of presidents, police chiefs and emperors. This wave of terrorism was seized upon by an outrage-hungry press that peddled hysteria, conspiracy theories and, sometimes, fake news in response, convincing many a reader that they were living through the end of days. Against the backdrop of this world of fear and disorder, The rise of devils chronicles the journeys of the men and women who evoked this panic and created modern terrorism – revolutionary philosophers, cult leaders, criminals and charlatans, as well as the paranoid police chiefs and unscrupulous spies who tried to thwart them. In doing so, this book explains how radicals once thought just in their causes became, as Pope Pius IX denounced them, little more than ‘devils risen up from Hell’.

Book Municipal Affairs

Download or read book Municipal Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devoted to the consideration of city problems from the steadpoint of the taxpayer and citizen.

Book The Knickerbocker

Download or read book The Knickerbocker written by Charles Fenno Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Economic Tracts

Download or read book Economic Tracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hubbard s Newspaper and Bank Directory of the World

Download or read book Hubbard s Newspaper and Bank Directory of the World written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 1378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crime  histoire et soci  t  s

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  • Author : Association internationale d'histoire du crime et de la justice criminelle
  • Publisher : Librairie Droz
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN : 9782600003568
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Crime histoire et soci t s written by Association internationale d'histoire du crime et de la justice criminelle and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1977 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Thrall to Political Change

Download or read book In Thrall to Political Change written by Malcolm Anderson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first history of the French police and gendarmerie explores the relations between the police and the public, and the place of the police in the political order. Based on archival material, Malcolm Anderson explores dramatic and often harrowing developments which have made policing in France troubled and controversial.

Book The Reader s Guide in Economic  Social and Political Science

Download or read book The Reader s Guide in Economic Social and Political Science written by Richard Rogers Bowker and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Bibliography of Municipal Problems and City Conditions

Download or read book A Bibliography of Municipal Problems and City Conditions written by Robert Clarkson Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prostitution Under the Regulation System

Download or read book Prostitution Under the Regulation System written by Yves Guyot and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fallen Veil

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  • Author : Raisa Adah Rexer
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2021-03-12
  • ISBN : 0812297857
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book The Fallen Veil written by Raisa Adah Rexer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, millions of nude photographs of the female form—artistic, pornographic, and everything in-between—were produced in France, the birthplace of photography. Drawing upon government records, legal decisions, newspaper accounts, and contemporary literature, Raisa Rexer recounts the history of these illicit and ubiquitous images and elucidates their immense cultural and artistic reach. Rexer focuses in particular on the ways that nude photographic imagery influenced some of the greatest authors of the period, including Charles Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, and Émile Zola, and sets their work against historical records and nonfiction print sources to tell the story of evolving perceptions of nude photography. In the period immediately after photography's invention, nude photographs were vitally connected to the questions of art and artistry, particularly with regard to photography's aspirations to high cultural status. By the end of the century, however, as production and sales expanded internationally and as photographs of nudes flooded the streets and shops, proliferation of these pictures was increasingly viewed as one of a host of social problems plaguing France. Illustrated with nearly ninety period images, The Fallen Veil offers the first full treatment of the photographic nude in the nineteenth century and considers how this history continues to influence many of the same questions we ask today about art, pornography, and the relation between the two.

Book Policing New Risks in Modern European History

Download or read book Policing New Risks in Modern European History written by Xavier Rousseaux and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authorities often fear societal change as it implies finding a new balance to live together within society. Whether it is defined by economic, political, social or cultural factors, the transformation of life in society is considered by authorities as a 'risk' that needs to be framed and controlled. The state's response to this situation of transformation can be analysed through the prism of the police. Informally or not, police systems adapt their regulatory frameworks, their structures and their practices in order to respond risks, new threats and new rules. This process, which is mostly of a contemporary nature, is also deeply historic. Analysing it on the long run is therefore particularly relevant. From the late nineteenth-century until the second half of the twentieth-century, Policing New Risks in Modern European History provides a panorama of political and police reactions to the 'risks' of societal change in a Western European perspective, focusing on Belgium, France, and The Netherlands, but also colonial perspectives.

Book Municipal Journal and Engineer

Download or read book Municipal Journal and Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Appendix to the Journal of the House of the Representatives

Download or read book Appendix to the Journal of the House of the Representatives written by New Zealand. Legislature. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: