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UNINA9910777414603321 |
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Liddick Don |
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Titolo |
The global underworld [[electronic resource] ] : transnational crime and the United States / / Donald R. Liddick |
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Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2004 |
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1-282-40829-1 |
9786612408298 |
0-313-05198-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (170 p.) |
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Collana |
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International and comparative criminology |
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Transnational crime |
Organized crime |
Organized crime - United States |
Transnational crime - United States - Prevention |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-154) and index. |
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Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview; Chapter 2 Principal Transnational Crime Groups Affecting the United States and Canada; Chapter 3 Smuggling, Transnational Theft, and ""Eco-Crime""; Chapter 4 Money Laundering and Other Financial Crimes; Chapter 5 Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction; Chapter 6 Responding to Transnational Organized Crime; Chapter 7 Summary and Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
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Transnational crime is an increasing national security threat to the United States and to individual citizens around the world. Criminal groups both in the United Staes and abroad operate crime cartels that span national boundaries, but in ways that affect all Americans, and wreak havoc on law enforcement organizations as well as businesses and other entities, such as the stock market. More often than not, transnational crime takes the form of organized crime, and in its many forms is responsible for over-priced goods, unsafe products, environmental hazards, corruption of public officials, the |
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UNINA9910796592803321 |
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Women poets of the English Civil War / / edited by Sarah C. E. Ross and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann |
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Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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1-5261-2504-8 |
1-5261-2503-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxiii, 362 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s) |
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War poetry, English - 17th century |
War poetry, English - Women authors |
Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets |
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry |
Literature: history & criticism |
History |
Poetry |
Great Britain |
Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649 Poetry |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 21-28) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Timeline. Introduction -- Further reading. Anne Bradstreet : From The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America (1650) -- From Several Poems (1678) . Hester Pulter. Katherine Philips : From the "Tutin" manuscript -- From the "Tutin" manuscript, reverse -- From Poems (1664) -- From Poems (1667). Margaret Cavendish : From Philosophical Fancies (1653) -- From Poems and Fancies (1664). Lucy Hutchinson : From De rerum natura -- From British Library, additional MS 17018 -- From Elegies -- From Order and Disorder -- From Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Textual introduction -- Textual notes -- Index of first lines |
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This anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War |
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period: Anne Bradstreet, Hester Pulter, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson. It presents these poems in modern-spelling, clear-text versions for classroom use, and for ready comparison to mainstream editions of male poets' work. The anthology reveals the diversity of women's poetry in the mid-seventeenth century, across political affiliations and forms of publication. Notes on the poems and an introduction explain the contexts of Civil War, religious conflict, and scientific and literary development. The anthology enables a more comprehensive understanding of seventeenth-century women's poetic culture, both in its own right and in relation to prominent male poets such as Marvell, Milton and Dryden |
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