Kidnapping and Violence, Stephen J. Morewitz

Автор: Scheidel Walter
Название: The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 0691165025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691165028
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: "Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world. Ever since humans began to farm, herd livestock, and pass on their assets to future generations, economic inequality has been a defining feature of civilization. Over thousands of years, only violent events have significantly lessened inequality. The "Four Horsemen" of leveling--mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues--have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. Scheidel identifies and examines these processes, from the crises of the earliest civilizations to the cataclysmic world wars and communist revolutions of the twentieth century. Today, the violence that reduced inequality in the past seems to have diminished, and that is a good thing. But it casts serious doubt on the prospects for a more equal future. An essential contribution to the debate about inequality, The Great Leveler provides important new insights about why inequality is so persistent--and why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon."--

Автор: Cahill Richard T. Jr.
Название: Hauptmann`s Ladder: A Step-By-Step Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping
ISBN: 1606351931 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781606351932
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. In the ensuing decades, many books about the Lindbergh case have been published. Some have declared Hauptmann the victim of a police conspiracy and frame-up. Hauptmann`s Ladder is a testament to the truth that counters the revisionist histories all too common in the true crime genre.

Автор: Ross Michael A.
Название: The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era
ISBN: 0199778809 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199778805
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In this stunning work of historical recreation, Michael Ross uses a kidnapping investigation and trial that electrified the South in the summer of 1870 to offer important new insights into the complexities and possibilities of the Reconstruction era.