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UNINA9910450033003321 |
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Renaud Jorge Antonio |
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Behind the Walls [[electronic resource] ] : A Guide for Families and Friends of Texas Prison Inmates |
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Denton, : University of North Texas Press, 2002 |
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1-57441-432-1 |
1-4337-1004-8 |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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North Texas Crime & Criminal Justice S., No. 1 |
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Prisons |
Electronic books. |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Behind the Walls; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Short History of Texas Prisons; 1 Diagnostic; 2 Living Quarters; 3 Food; 4 Clothing; 5 Work; 6 Administrative Segregation; 7 Medical and Dental Facilities; 8 Recreation; 9 Money; 10 Mail; 11 Visits and Calls; 12 Religion; 13 General and Law Libraries; 14 Craft Shop; 15 Substance Abuse; 16 Education; 17 Discipline; 18 Lockdowns; 19 Drugs; 20 Racism, Riots, and Gangs; 21 Parole, Good Time, and Discharge; 22 What to do in Emergencies; 23 The Echo; 24 Helping Ex-Cons Stay out of Prison; Appendix A Custody Levels |
Appendix B Medical and Dental Services Offered TDCJ InmatesAppendix C Law Library Holdings; Appendix D Commissary Spending Limits; Appendix E Recreation Requirements; Appendix F Good Conduct Time; Appendix G Parole Officials; Appendix H Administrative Offices and Unit Profiles; Appendix I Resource List; Glossary; Index |
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Written to inform about the processes, services, activities, issues and problems of being incarcerated, this is a valuable guide to anyone who has a relative or friend incarcerated in Texas, or for those who want to understand how prisoners live, eat, work, play and die in a contemporary US prison. |
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UNINA9910460164303321 |
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Food in the Civil War era : the south / / edited by Helen Zoe Veit |
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East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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1 online resource (274 p.) |
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American Food in History Series |
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Cooking, American - History - 19th century |
Cooking, American - History |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Food in the Antebellum South and the Confederacy, by Christopher Farrish; Seeing the Civil War South through Its Recipes; Mary Randolph, The Virginia Housewife: or, Methodical Cook; Selections from Confederate Periodicals, 1861-1865; Confederate Receipt Book: A Compilation of over One Hundred Receipts, Adapted to the Times; Maryland Recipe Manuscript, 1850s-1870; Maria Barringer, Dixie Cookery: Or How I Managed My Table for Twelve Years, For Southern Housekeepers |
Annabella P. Hill, Mrs. Hill's New Cook Book: A Practical System for Private Families, in Town and CountryAbby Fisher, What Mrs. Fisher Knows about Old Southern Cooking, Soups, Pickles, Preserves, Etc.; Notes; Glossary of Nineteenth-Century Cooking Terms; Index |
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Almost immediately, the Civil War transformed the way Southerners ate, devastating fields and food transportation networks. The war also spurred Southerners to canonize prewar cooking styles, resulting in cuisine that retained nineteenth-century techniques in a way other American cuisines did not. This fascinating book presents a variety of Civil War-era recipes from the South, accompanied by eye-opening essays describing this tumultuous period in the way people lived and ate. The cookbooks excerpted here teem with the kinds of recipes we expect to find when we go looking for Southern food: g |
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