Описание: On a Sunday morning in early 1892, Reverend Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst ascended to his pulpit at the Madison Square Presbyterian Church in New York and delivered one of the most explosive sermons in the city's history. Municipal life, he charged, was morally corrupt. Vice was rampant. And the city's police force and its Tammany Hall politicians were"a lying, perjured, rum-soaked, and libidinous lot." Denounced by city and police officials as a self-righteous "blatherskite," Parkhurst resolved to prove his case. The bespectacled minister descended his pulpit and in disguise visited gin joints and brothels, taking notes and gathering evidence. Two years later, his findings forced the New York State Senate to investigate the New York Police Department. The Lexow Committee heard testimony from nearly 700 witnesses, who revealed in shocking-and headline-dominating-detail just how deeply the NYPD was involved in, and benefitted from, the vice economy. Parkhurst's campaign had kick-started the Progressive Movement. New York Exposed offers a narrative history of the first major crusade to clean up Gotham. Daniel Czitrom does full justice to this spellbinding story by telling it within the larger contexts of national politics, poverty, patronage, vote fraud and vote suppression, and police violence. The effort to root out corrupt cops and crooked politicians morphed into something much more profound: a public reckoning over what New York-and the American city-had become since the Civil War. Animated by as vivid a cast as New York has ever produced, the book's key characters include Police Superintendent Thomas Byrnes and Inspector Alexander "Clubber" Williams, the nation's most famous cops, as well as anarchist revolutionary Emma Goldman, the zealous prosecutor John W. Goff, and an array of politicos, immigrant leaders, labor bosses, prostitutes, show-business entrepreneurs, counterfeiters, and reformers and muckrakers determined to change business as usual. New York Exposed offers an unforgettable portrait of a city in a truly transformative moment.
Автор: Cave Название: Devotional Poetry in France c.1570–1613 ISBN: 0521113458 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521113458 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6019.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Dr Cave studies the relationship between the traditions of personal devotion in sixteenth-century France and the poetry which flourished. It was a poetry of intense personal commitment, often verging on mysticism and mingling of the sensual, the intellectual and the spiritual in a manner often thought typical of the baroque.
Автор: Ludtke Название: Police and State in Prussia, 1815–1850 ISBN: 0521111870 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521111874 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book focuses on the way in which people were treated by the police and military guards in nineteenth-century Prussia, in the general context of Prussian bureaucratic development. The book therefore offers an understanding of the repressive side of the Prussian and German state since the middle of the nineteenth-century.
Автор: Zuckerman Название: The Tsarist Secret Police Abroad ISBN: 1403904383 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403904386 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This title explores the secret work of those responsible for protecting the royal family of Russia during the 19th centruy and reveals the role of the tsarist police abroad and its collaboration with European forces.
Автор: Bevis Matthew Название: Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry ISBN: 0198713711 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198713715 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5146.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry offers an authorative collection of original essays and is an essential resource for those interested in Victorian poetry and poetics.
Автор: Fitzgerald Название: Chronicles of Bow Street Police-Office ISBN: 1108036945 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108036948 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5386.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This two-volume work, published in 1888, gives a stirring account of the work of London`s eighteenth-century law enforcers, the Bow Street Runners. It tells how the Runners were formed, and, using official records, examines a selection of criminal investigations including the Cato Street Conspiracy and the murder of William Weare.
Автор: Barrie Название: A History of Police and Masculinities, 1700?2010 ISBN: 0415671299 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415671293 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This unique collection brings together leading international scholars to explore how ideologies about masculinities have shaped police culture, policy and institutional organization from the eighteenth century to the present day.
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