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UNINA9910778979603321 |
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Kasserman David Richard |
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Fall River outrage [[electronic resource] ] : life, murder, and justice in early industrial New England / / David Richard Kasserman |
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986 |
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1-283-21132-7 |
9786613211323 |
0-8122-0088-8 |
0-585-11631-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (295 p.) |
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Trials (Murder) - Rhode Island - Newport |
Working class - Massachusetts - Fall River - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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4th paperback printing, 1996. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Outrage -- 2. Beginning a Life in the Mills -- 3. Ending a Life in the Mills -- 4. The Minister -- 5. Preliminary Engagements -- 6. The Prosecution -- 7.The Defense -- 8. The Verdict -- 9. Public Justice -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Fall River Outrage recounts one of the most sensational and widely reported murder cases in early nineteenth-century America. When, in 1832, a pregnant mill worker was found hanged, the investigation implicated a prominent Methodist minister. Fearing adverse publicity, both the industrialists of Fall River and the New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church engaged in energetic campaigns to obtain a favorable verdict. It was also one of the earliest attempts by American lawyers to prove their client innocent by assassinating the moral character of the female victim. Fall River Outrage provides insight in American social, legal, and labor history as well as women's studies. |
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UNINA9910959967403321 |
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Autore |
Salamon Sonya |
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Newcomers to old towns : suburbanization of the heartland / / Sonya Salamon ; with the collaboration of Karen Davis-Brown ... [et al.] |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 |
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9786612706264 |
9781282706262 |
1282706268 |
9780226734118 |
0226734110 |
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Edizione |
[Pbk. ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (270 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Urban-rural migration - Middle West |
Urban-rural migration - Illinois |
Sociology, Rural - Middle West |
Sociology, Rural - Illinois |
Middle West Rural conditions |
Illinois Rural conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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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. [225]-236) and index. |
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pt. 1. Changes in the heartland -- pt. 2. Newcomers, old towns -- pt. 3. The postagrarian countryside. |
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2004 winner of the Robert E. Park Book Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section (CUSS) of the American Sociological Association Although the death of the small town has been predicted for decades, during the 1990's the population of rural America actually increased by more than three million people. In this book, Sonya Salamon explores these rural newcomers and the impact they have on the social relationships, public spaces, and community resources of small town America. Salamon draws on richly detailed ethnographic studies of six small towns in central Illinois, including a town with upscale subdivisions that lured wealthy professionals as well as towns whose agribusinesses drew working-class Mexicano migrants and |
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immigrants. She finds that regardless of the class or ethnicity of the newcomers, if their social status differs relative to that of oldtimers, their effect on a town has been the same: suburbanization that erodes the close-knit small town community, with especially severe consequences for small town youth. To successfully combat the homogenization of the heartland, Salamon argues, newcomers must work with oldtimers so that together they sustain the vital aspects of community life and identity that first drew them to small towns. An illustration of the recent revitalization of interest in the small town, Salamon's work provides a significant addition to the growing literature on the subject. Social scientists, sociologists, policymakers, and urban planners will appreciate this important contribution to the ongoing discussion of social capital and the transformation in the study and definition of communities. |
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