Author: Casey Sherman
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1584656794
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Author: Robert Jackall
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 0674039017
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The moral ambiguities of the detectives' world as they move between the streets and a bureaucratic behemoth is examined through their personal stories, in a collection that captures the real-life exploits, investigations, sensibilities, and consciousness of detectives in an urban environment.
Author: Bruce Stewart
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 0813134315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →To many antebellum Americans, Appalachia was a frightening wilderness of lawlessness, peril, robbers, and hidden dangers. The extensive media coverage of horse stealing and scalping raids profiled the region’s residents as intrinsically violent. After the Civil War, this characterization continued to permeate perceptions of the area and news of the conflict between the Hatfields and the McCoys, as well as the bloodshed associated with the coal labor strikes, cemented Appalachia’s violent reputation. Blood in the Hills: A History of Violence in Appalachia provides an in-depth historical analysis of hostility in the region from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Editor Bruce E. Stewart discusses aspects of the Appalachian violence culture, examining skirmishes with the native population, conflicts resulting from the region’s rapid modernization, and violence as a function of social control. The contributors also address geographical isolation and ethnicity, kinship, gender, class, and race with the purpose of shedding light on an often-stereotyped regional past. Blood in the Hills does not attempt to apologize for the region but uses detailed research and analysis to explain it, delving into the social and political factors that have defined Appalachia throughout its violent history.
Author: Charlton Thomas Lewis
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 1222
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Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2008-04-21
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 159376331X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of writings on and by members of urban youth gangs gives voice to an American subculture far richer and more complex than the headlines indicate. Urban youth gangs are typically viewed as no more than training grounds for thugs and felons. This breakthrough anthology presents a far different picture, revealing present and former gang members' and street activists' artistic impulses, emotional sensitivities, political beliefs, and capacities to assess the social conditions that created them. The Bandana Republic contains powerful writing: fiction and essays, poetry, and polemics written by adolescents from gangs like the Crips and Bloods and the Mexican Mafia. There's also creative work by ex-gangbangers who have become activists, artists, musicians, and movie stars. J. Sheeler's "Seven Immortals" finds grim poetry in a young girl's gang initiation. Jaha Zainabu's "The Jungle (Blood Territory)" is a lacerating portrait of an LA Blood. Commander's "The Brothas Gunnin'" piercingly profiles a neighborhood--and a world--under siege.
Author: Ralph Cotton
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2003-07-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1101594411
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When the Peltry Gang swoops into Rileyville, the attack is sudden and merciless. Before the townsfolk know what hit them, one of their own lies dead on the dirt street, Deputy Abner Webb is caught with his pants down, and just for good measure, the desperadoes shoot the sheriff and leave him for dead as they head out. Webb knows he must capture the outlaws for what they’ve done, but that won’t be easy for the inexperienced lawman. Yet with the help of a shady horse trader and an ornery schoolmaster, Webb just might bring the gunslingers in on their feet—or slungover their saddles.
Author: Thomas E. Mails
Publisher: Council Oak Books
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 0933031459
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