First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt : Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920 / Jeffrey S Adler.
2009
HV6534.C4 -- A35 2006eb
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First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt : Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920 / Jeffrey S Adler.
Author
Adler, Jeffrey S, author.
ISBN
9780674020085
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2006
Language
English
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In English.
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10.4159/9780674020085 doi
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HV6534.C4 -- A35 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.1520973/1109034
Summary
Between 1875 and 1920, Chicago's homicide rate more than quadrupled. Based on an analysis of nearly six thousand homicide cases, First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt examines the ways in which industrialization, immigration, poverty, ethnic and racial conflict, and powerful cultural forces reshaped Chicago city life and generated soaring levels of lethal violence. From rage killers to the "Baby Bandit Quartet," Jeffrey Adler offers a dramatic portrait of Chicago during a period in which the characteristic elements of modern homicide in America emerged.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
1. "So You Refuse to Drink with Me, Do You?"
2. "I Loved My Wife So I Killed Her"
3. "He Got What He Deserved"
4. "If Ever That Black Dog Crosses the Threshold of My House, I Will Kill Him"
5. "The Dead Man's Hand"
6. "A Good Place to Drown Babies"
7. "A Butcher at the Stockyard Killing Sheep"
Conclusion
Appendix: Methodology
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Contents
Introduction
1. "So You Refuse to Drink with Me, Do You?"
2. "I Loved My Wife So I Killed Her"
3. "He Got What He Deserved"
4. "If Ever That Black Dog Crosses the Threshold of My House, I Will Kill Him"
5. "The Dead Man's Hand"
6. "A Good Place to Drown Babies"
7. "A Butcher at the Stockyard Killing Sheep"
Conclusion
Appendix: Methodology
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index