1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450033003321

Autore

Renaud Jorge Antonio

Titolo

Behind the Walls [[electronic resource] ] : A Guide for Families and Friends of Texas Prison Inmates

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Denton, : University of North Texas Press, 2002

ISBN

1-57441-432-1

1-4337-1004-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

North Texas Crime & Criminal Justice S., No. 1

Disciplina

365.9764

365/.6/09764

Soggetti

Prisons

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460164303321

Titolo

Food in the Civil War era : the south / / edited by Helen Zoe Veit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-60917-451-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

American Food in History Series

Disciplina

641.5973

Soggetti

Cooking, American - History - 19th century

Cooking, American - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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