Alcatraz [[electronic resource] ] : the gangster years / / David A. Ward ; with Gene Kassebaum |
Autore | Ward David A |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (578 p.) |
Disciplina | 365/.979461 |
Altri autori (Persone) | KassebaumGene G |
Soggetto topico | Prisons - California - Alcatraz Island - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century american crime
20th century american history al capone alcatraz alvin karpis american government convicts crime dock barker escape attempts fbi federal bureau of prisons federal government federal parole records gangsters george kelly infamous criminals inmates machine gun kelly outlaws penal policy penitentiary prison administrators prison guards prison public enemy resistance security supermax prison the rock worst of the worst |
ISBN |
1-282-77248-1
9786612772481 0-520-94298-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: Reconstructing the Life of a Prison -- 1. The Federal Government's War on "Public Enemies" -- 2. A New Form of Imprisonment -- 3. Selecting the "Worst of the Worst" -- 4. The Program -- 5. Organized Resistance: A Regime Tested -- 6. Finding a Hole in the Rock: The First Escape Attempts -- 7. Alcatraz on Trial -- 8. The War Years -- 9. The Battle of Alcatraz -- 10. Resistance and Adaptation -- 11. Outlaws among Outlaws -- 12. Celebrity Prisoners -- 13. Return to the Free World -- 14. Lessons from Alcatraz for Supermax Prisons -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHIC COMMENTARY -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785270603321 |
Ward David A
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Breaking rocks : music, ideology and economic collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa / / Joe Trapido |
Autore | Trapido Joe |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Disciplina | 781.63096751 |
Collana | Dislocations |
Soggetto topico |
Popular music - Economic aspects - Congo (Democratic Republic)
Popular music - Social aspects - Congo (Democratic Republic) Music patronage - Congo (Democratic Republic) Congolese (Democratic Republic) - Europe - Social conditions |
Soggetto non controllato |
angola
central africa congo kinshasa congo congolese music congolese popular music democratic republic of the congo diamond dealers dr congo drc economics europe fieldwork france francophone country gangsters globalization ideology kinshasa love song music musicians name check paris patronage payments patronage patrons performing arts political economy politicians politics post colonial africa postcolonialism power prestige song dedications the droc value zaire |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Bars, music, gender and politics -- Exchange, music, patronage -- Potlatch migrants : travelling to Europe, arriving in Kinshasa -- Rights, piracy and producers -- The president as gatekeeper, patronage as a class relationship. Elders and cadets Rey reproduced now -- Mikiliste economies -- Love and money -- Charismatic fetishism -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792731703321 |
Trapido Joe
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New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017 | ||
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Breaking rocks : music, ideology and economic collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa / / Joe Trapido |
Autore | Trapido Joe |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Disciplina | 781.63096751 |
Collana | Dislocations |
Soggetto topico |
Popular music - Economic aspects - Congo (Democratic Republic)
Popular music - Social aspects - Congo (Democratic Republic) Music patronage - Congo (Democratic Republic) Congolese (Democratic Republic) - Europe - Social conditions |
Soggetto non controllato |
angola
central africa congo kinshasa congo congolese music congolese popular music democratic republic of the congo diamond dealers dr congo drc economics europe fieldwork france francophone country gangsters globalization ideology kinshasa love song music musicians name check paris patronage payments patronage patrons performing arts political economy politicians politics post colonial africa postcolonialism power prestige song dedications the droc value zaire |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Bars, music, gender and politics -- Exchange, music, patronage -- Potlatch migrants : travelling to Europe, arriving in Kinshasa -- Rights, piracy and producers -- The president as gatekeeper, patronage as a class relationship. Elders and cadets Rey reproduced now -- Mikiliste economies -- Love and money -- Charismatic fetishism -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828742703321 |
Trapido Joe
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Yakuza [[electronic resource] ] : Japan's criminal underworld / / David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro |
Autore | Kaplan David E |
Edizione | [25th anniversary ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.1060952 |
Altri autori (Persone) | DubroAlec |
Soggetto topico |
Yakuza - Japan - History
Yakuza - History Organized crime - Japan - History Crime - Japan - History Gangs - Japan - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
asia scholars asian history asian studies controversial crime historians crime history crime syndicates crime criminal class criminal culture criminal organizations criminology cultural historians gangsters japan japanese culture japanese history japanese society japans underworld modern impact organized crime outlaws retrospective sociologists sociology western perspective yakuza culture yakuza society yakuza |
ISBN |
1-282-13417-5
9786613806758 0-520-95381-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Early history -- pt. 2. The Kodama years -- pt. 3. The modern Yakuza -- pt. 4. The move abroad. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779223003321 |
Kaplan David E
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012 | ||
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