Winner of the 2009 Gulf South Historical Association Book Award
When a priest suggested to one of the first governors of Louisiana that he banish all disreputable women to raise the colony's moral tone, the governor responded, "If I send away all the loose females, there will be no women left here at all." Primitive, mosquito infested, and disease ridden, early French colonial New Orleans offered few attractions to entice respectable women as residents. King Louis XIV of France solved the population problem in 1721 by emptying Paris's La Salpetriere prison of many of its most notorious prostitutes and convicts and sending them to Louisiana. Many of these women continued to ply their trade in New Orleans.
In Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women, Judith Kelleher Schafer examines case histories from the First District Court of New Orleans and tells the engrossing story of prostitution in the city prior to the Civil War. Louisiana law did not criminalize the selling of sex until the Progressive Era, although the law forbade keeping a brothel. Police arrested individual public women on vague charges, for being "lewd and abandoned" or vagrants. The city's wealthy and influential landlords, some of whom made huge profits by renting their property as brothels, wanted their tenants back on the streets as soon as possible, and they often hired the best criminal attorneys to help release the women from jail. The courts, in turn, often treated these "public women" leniently, exacting small fines or sending them to the city's workhouse for a few months. As a result, prosecutors dropped almost all prostitution cases before trial.
Relying on previously unexamined court records and newly available newspaper articles, Schafer ably details the brutal and often harrowing lives of the women and young girls who engaged in prostitution. Some watched as gangs of rowdy men smashed their furniture; some endured beatings by their customers or other public women enraged by fits of jealousy; others were murdered. Schafer discusses the sexual exploitation of children, sex across the color line, violence among and against public women, and the city's feeble attempts to suppress the trade. She also profiles several infamous New Orleans sex workers, including Delia Swift, alias Bridget Fury, a flaming redhead with a fondness for stabbing men, and Emily Eubanks and her daughter Elisabeth, free women of color known for assaulting white women.
Although scholars have written much about prostitution in New Orleans' Storyville era, few historical studies on prostitution in antebellum New Orleans exist. Schafer's rich analysis fills this gap and offers insight into an intriguing period in the history of the "oldest profession" in the Crescent City."
Описание: An unexpected phone call acutely injects the fear of death into view and tests a mother's faith in ways she had not imagined. "Hi Mom, it's Bob." The warm smile that her son Bob's voice typically brought her quickly faded as she learned she could be losing a child to cancer. The phone call revealed her son had multiple myeloma-a cancer of the bone marrow-and there was no cure. Betsy found hope in her faith that God could work a miracle for four years and three months. Unfortunately, prayers did not bring healing, and her son's death broke her heart. Dealing with grief and loss was compounded when a Boston Terrier that had given her extraordinary comfort during this time was lost as well. In this wonderfully written memoir, the author hopes to help someone grieving the loss of a child reaffirm their faith in God. However, she doesn't gloss over the difficulties of dealing with grief and loss during her spiritual journey. Hope abounds, and a journey of renewal begins when a newly acquired Boston Terrier named Ribbons helps Betsy rediscover God's beauty in nature. As Betsy struggles to accept God's will in the loss of her son, she realizes that walking the dog becomes a spiritual journey where the fear of death begins to lose its sting. During walks with Ribbons, she finds comfort in a field of yellow flowers and hope in a morning sunrise. She starts to experience how people heal when God and grief meet. You'll move from moments of deep sorrow to moments where you find the comfort of God's beauty in nature, and renewal in the gift of a bird's joyful song. It's one of those must-read books on grieving the loss of a child that will help people learn to trust in God's wisdom and goodness.
Автор: Kelleher Catherine McArdle, Dombrowski Peter Название: Regional Missile Defense from a Global Perspective ISBN: 0804790647 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804790642 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 16302.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Regional Missile Defense from a Global Perspective explains the origins, evolution, and implications of the regional approach to missile defense that has emerged since the presidency of George H. W. Bush, and has culminated with the missile defense decisions of President Barack Obama. The Obama administration's overarching concept for American missile defense focuses on developing both a national system of limited ground-based defenses, located in Alaska and California, intended to counter limited intercontinental threats, and regionally-based missile defenses consisting of mobile ground-based technologies like the Patriot PAC-3 system, and sea-based Aegis-equipped destroyer and cruisers.
The volume is intended to stimulate renewed debates in strategic studies and public policy circles over the contribution of regional and national missile defense to global security. Written from a range of perspectives by practitioners and academics, the book provides a rich source for understanding the technologies, history, diplomacy, and strategic implications of the gradual evolution of American missile defense plans. Experts and non-experts alike--whether needing to examine the offense-defense tradeoffs anew, to engage with a policy update, or to better understand the debate as it relates to a country or region--will find this book invaluable. While it opens the door to the debates, however, it does not find or offer easy solutions--because they do not exist.
Описание: Making Love closely reexamines the literary history of sentimentalism in order to open up new ways of understanding the history of sexuality.
Автор: Kelleher John D., Tierney Brendan Название: Data Science ISBN: 0262535432 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262535434 Издательство: MIT Press Рейтинг: Цена: 2700.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A concise introduction to the emerging field of data science, explaining its evolution, relation to machine learning, current uses, data infrastructure issues, and ethical challenges.
The goal of data science is to improve decision making through the analysis of data. Today data science determines the ads we see online, the books and movies that are recommended to us online, which emails are filtered into our spam folders, and even how much we pay for health insurance. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise introduction to the emerging field of data science, explaining its evolution, current uses, data infrastructure issues, and ethical challenges.
It has never been easier for organizations to gather, store, and process data. Use of data science is driven by the rise of big data and social media, the development of high-performance computing, and the emergence of such powerful methods for data analysis and modeling as deep learning. Data science encompasses a set of principles, problem definitions, algorithms, and processes for extracting non-obvious and useful patterns from large datasets. It is closely related to the fields of data mining and machine learning, but broader in scope. This book offers a brief history of the field, introduces fundamental data concepts, and describes the stages in a data science project. It considers data infrastructure and the challenges posed by integrating data from multiple sources, introduces the basics of machine learning, and discusses how to link machine learning expertise with real-world problems. The book also reviews ethical and legal issues, developments in data regulation, and computational approaches to preserving privacy. Finally, it considers the future impact of data science and offers principles for success in data science projects.
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