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American gulag : inside U.S. immigration prisons / / Mark Dow
| American gulag : inside U.S. immigration prisons / / Mark Dow |
| Autore | Dow Mark |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 413 pages) |
| Disciplina | 365/.4 |
| Soggetto topico |
Immigrants - Government policy - United States
Noncitizen detention centers - United States Human rights - United States Emigration and immigration law - United States |
| Soggetto non controllato |
america
american gulag american prisons detention centers federal officials human cruelty human rights violations human rights immigration and nationalization service immigration detention immigration history immigration laws immigration policies immigration prisons inhumane conditions ins facilities ins prisoners ins investigative journalism jailers prison system prisoners racial profiling racism repression september 11 us immigration policies |
| ISBN |
0-520-93927-1
1-59734-461-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Invisibility, intimidation, and the INS -- September 11: secrecy, disruption, and continuity -- Another world, another nation: Miami's Krome Detention Center -- "Enforcement means you're brutal" -- The world's first private prison -- "Keeping quiet means deny" : a hunger strike in Queens -- The art of jailing -- "Criminal aliens" and criminal agents -- Siege, shackles, climate, design -- "Speak to every media" : resistance, repression, and the making of a prisoner -- Good and evil in New England -- Out West: philosophy and despair -- Dead time. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Inside U.S. immigration prisons |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780445403321 |
Dow Mark
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| Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2004 | ||
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Caligula [[electronic resource] ] : a biography / / Aloys Winterling ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider, Glenn W. Most, and Paul Psoinos
| Caligula [[electronic resource] ] : a biography / / Aloys Winterling ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider, Glenn W. Most, and Paul Psoinos |
| Autore | Winterling Aloys |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
| Disciplina |
937/.07092
B |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
SchneiderDeborah Lucas
MostGlenn W PsoinosPaul |
| Collana | Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature |
| Soggetto topico | Emperors - Rome |
| Soggetto non controllato |
ancient history
ancient rome ancient sources biography brutality caligula career classical period dark dramatic engaging famous tyrant general audience historical analysis history buffs history human cruelty intense mental illness military nobility nonfiction notorious figures political science political system political thriller politics questioned sanity revolt roman emperors roman politics roman senate rome torture tyrant world history worship |
| ISBN |
1-283-33183-7
9786613331830 0-520-94314-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: A mad emperor? -- Childhood and youth -- Two years as princeps -- The conflicts escalate -- Five months of monarchy -- Murder on the Palatine -- Conclusion: Inventing the mad emperor -- Epilogue to the English edition. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781510203321 |
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Winterling Aloys
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 | ||
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The last gasp [[electronic resource] ] : the rise and fall of the American gas chamber / / Scott Christianson
| The last gasp [[electronic resource] ] : the rise and fall of the American gas chamber / / Scott Christianson |
| Autore | Christianson Scott |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
| Disciplina | 364.66 |
| Soggetto topico |
Gas chambers - United States - History
Capital punishment - United States - History - 20th century |
| Soggetto non controllato |
1924
20th century america american history collaboration controversial dark death penalty eugenics movement gas chamber technology gas chamber germany hitler human cruelty human execution human history hydrogen cyanide industry law lethal gas chambers medicine method of killing military uses modern history nevada no witnesses out of sight politics power structures profit science united states war world war i. wwi |
| ISBN |
1-282-69765-X
9786612697654 0-520-94561-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. THE RISE OF THE LETHAL CHAMBER -- PART TWO. THE FALL OF THE GAS CHAMBER -- APPENDIX 1: EARL C. LISTON'S PATENT APPLICATION -- APPENDIX 2: PERSONS EXECUTED BY LETHAL GAS IN THE UNITED STATES, BY STATE, 1924 - 1999 -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784919703321 |
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Christianson Scott
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
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