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Zusatztext "In an engaging! fast-paced narrative! Allerfeldt explores the marrow of American culture through the brashness! audacity! opportunism! and ruthlessness of American criminals from the end of the Civil War to the nation's entry in World War II.... Allerfeldt provides an accessible and interesting portrait of industrial America and the crimes and scandals that gripped the nation between Appomattox and Pearl Harbor." - Jeffrey S. Adler (University of Florida)! H-Net Reviews Informationen zum Autor Kristofer Allerfeldt is a lecturer at the University of Exeter where he teaches diverse American social and diplomatic history courses. Klappentext In Crime and the Rise of Modern America, Kristofer Allerfeldt studies the crimes, criminals, and law enforcement that contributed to a uniquely American system of crime and punishment from the end of the Civil War to the eve of World War II to understand how the rapidly-changing technology of transportation, media, and incarceration affected the criminal underworld.In ten thematic chapters, Crime and the Rise of Modern America turns to the outlaws of the iconic West and the illegal distilleries of Prohibition, the turn-of-the-century immigrants, and the conmen who preyed on the people of the Promised Land, to examine how crime and America both changed, defining each other. Zusammenfassung Presents a thematic history of crime in the USA from the time of Lee's surrender at Appomattox to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. This title takes the period of American history where the country was changing into a truly modern, unified nation, and examines the roles crime and criminality have played in the growth of the nation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Crimes of the Century Chapter 1: Crime and the West Chapter 2: Hate Crime Chapter 3: Prostitution and Sex Crime Chapter 4: Drink and Drugs Chapter 5: Nationality, Race, and Crime Chapter 6: Corporate and Business Crime Chapter 7: Forgers, Swindlers, and Blackmailers Chapter 8: Political Crime Chapter 9: Terrorists and Freedom Fighters Chapter 10: Lawmen and Vigilantes Afterword ...
