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Author: Stacia M. Brown Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0547490801 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 277
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The story of an unmarried tradeswoman in London during the Puritan Revolution (1649–1650) whose passionate love affair leads to a trial for murder.
Author: Stacia M. Brown Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0547490801 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 277
Book Description
The story of an unmarried tradeswoman in London during the Puritan Revolution (1649–1650) whose passionate love affair leads to a trial for murder.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004418512 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 283
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There is now an extensive literature on the social and environmental consequences of living in the risk society. Studies of trauma are also increasingly prominent. But scant attention has been paid to perceptions of risk and danger in the past — in particular, to the history of accidents and the meanings of the accidental. This collection of interdisciplinary essays addresses this lacuna providing a theoretically informed historical sociology of the accident and risk. It explores the social and cultural contexts in which ‘acts of God', calamities, catastrophes, disasters, injuries, casualties, and other category of ‘mishaps' were experienced, conceptualized and responded to. Drawing on the skills of British, European and North American scholars, Accidents in History combines philosophical, sociological and ecological overviews with in-depth historical case-studies. It spans the period from the eighteenth century to the present, probing the epistemological, social and political roots of the accidental. The authors differentiate between industrial and other forms of injury; trace the origins of the normalization of accidents; and analyze the interactions and gendered discrepancies between domestic and non-domestic mishaps. They also investigate the medicalization of sudden injury, and discuss the emergence of new socio-medical and humanitarian discourses around the organization of relief for victims.
Author: Henry a. (Henry Augustus) 180 Boardman Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: 9781362511281 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 50
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Author: Peter Manseau Publisher: Melville House ISBN: 1612195075 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 242
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Did you know that fatal gun mishaps have been so common in America that for centuries, newspapers carried regular columns reporting on “melancholy accidents”? It came as a surprising discovery when, while conducting research that involved reading colonial-era newspapers, acclaimed writer Peter Manseau stumbled upon one report after another of “melancholy accidents”—instances of local people accidentally discharging firearms to disastrous results. Usually, they were brief items, with the concision of dark poetry—hunting accidents, neighbor shooting neighbor, father shooting son. Dark as they were, they were also often bizarre and fascinating—such as the case of one farmer who, trying out his new musket, shot it at his barn, hitting a door hinge that split the musket ball in two, with each half ricochetting off to hit a different, distant person, each of whom was a doctor. In Melancholy Accidents, Manseau collects and annotates a wide-ranging assortment of these woebegone and oddly intimate reports, with numerous illustrations, photos, and visuals from original period newspapers. It makes for a wholly unique contribution to the ongoing consideration of—and the recent heated discussion about—the historic place of firearms in American society.
Author: Stacia M. Brown
Author: Stacia M. Brown
Author: Providence (R.I.). City Traffic Engineer
Author: Rhode Island. Governor's Commission on Metropolitan Transportation
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Author: Henry a. (Henry Augustus) 180 Boardman
Author: J. Stuart Bogg
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