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Kristallnacht
The life of Johannes Neumann, a young Jewish boy living in Berlin, is suddenly thrown into chaos on the night of Broken Glass-Kristallnacht in 1938. While his parents are rounded up by Nazi officials, Johannes finds refuge in the home of a German family. Johannes' rescue and safety hinges upon his ability to dutifully serve the Gruber Family despite his longing for his own parents, his fear of Nazi capture, and his growing affection for the Gruber's physically disabled daughter, Anna. Joseph Laythe in this work, Kristallnacht, explores the changing dynamics between the two children and how over the next seven years, through a series of close-calls, Johannes' secret hiding spot is never exposed. But, the secret is perpetuated for an additional 35 years and it's only then that Johannes is confronted with the paradox of the Grubers as saviors and enslavers.
Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume XII
Drawing on engaging case studies, Essays in the History of Canadian Law brings the law to life. The contributors to this collection provide rich historical and social context for each case, unravelling the process of legal decision-making and explaining the impact of the law on the people involved in legal disputes. Examining the law not simply as legislation and institutions, but as discourse, practice, symbols, rhetoric, and language, the book’s chapters show the law as both oppressive and constraining and as a point of contention and means of resistance. This collection presents new approaches and concerns, as well as re-examinations of existing themes with new evidence and modes of sto...
True Crime Philadelphia
Serial killer H.H. Holmes built his murder castle in Chicago, but he met the hangman in Philadelphia. Al Capone served his first prison sentence here. The real-life killers who inspired HBO’s Boardwalk Empire lived and died here. America’s first bank robbery was pulled off here in 1798. The country’s first kidnapping for ransom came off without a hitch in 1874. A South Philadelphia man hatched the largest mass murder plot in U.S. history in the 1930s. His partners in crime were unhappy housewives. Catholics and Protestants aimed cannon at each other in city streets in 1844. Civil rights hero Octavius V. Catto was gunned down on South Street in 1871. Take a walk with us through city his...
Engendered Death
Engendered Death: Pennsylvania Women Who Kill is an historical and interdisciplinary study of women who kill in Pennsylvania from the 18th century to the present. It is not an examination of what motivates women to kill, although the reader may deduce that from the case studies included. Instead, it is an examination of how society perceives women who kill and how the gender-lens is applied to them throughout the legal process in the media and in the courtroom. What makes this work particularly unique is its combination of both scholarly analysis and narrative case studies. As such, it will appeal to both the scholar and the reader of true-crime non-fiction. If we are to recognize the comple...
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