1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454676303321

Autore

Adler Jeffrey S

Titolo

First in violence, deepest in dirt [[electronic resource] ] : homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920 / / Jeffrey S. Adler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-674-02008-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Disciplina

364.1520973/1109034

Soggetti

Homicide - Illinois - Chicago

Murder - Illinois - Chicago

Electronic books.

Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-357) and index.

Nota di contenuto

"So you refuse to drink with me, do you?" -- "I loved my wife so I killed her" -- "He got what he deserved" -- "If ever that black dog crosses the threshold of my house, I will kill him" -- "The dead man's hand" -- "A good place to drown babies" --  "A butcher at the stockyard killing sheep."

Sommario/riassunto

Between 1875 and 1920, Chicago's homicide rate more than quadrupled. Based on an analysis of nearly six thousand homicide cases, First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt examines the ways in which industrialization, immigration, poverty, ethnic and racial conflict, and powerful cultural forces reshaped Chicago city life and generated soaring levels of lethal violence. From rage killers to the "Baby Bandit Quartet," Jeffrey Adler offers a dramatic portrait of Chicago during a period in which the characteristic elements of modern homicide in America emerged.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003343149707536

Autore

Biblioteca comunale <Pavia>

Titolo

Librorum saec. 15. impressorum qui in publica Ticinensi bibliotheca adservantur : catalogus / Fridericus Ageno ; cura et studio Tulliae Gasparrini Leporace absolutus atque tabulis locupletatus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Florentiae : Olschki, 1954

Descrizione fisica

468 p. ; 25 cm

Collana

Biblioteca di bibliografia italiana ; 39

Altri autori (Persone)

Ageno, Federicoauthor

Gasparrini Leporace, Tullia

Disciplina

018.142

Soggetti

Incunaboli - Cataloghi

Pavia - Biblioteca comunale - Cataloghi

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia