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ISBN10: 027597507X, ISBN13: 9780275975074, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Westport] Softcover Paperback. As Chiasson and his contributors illustrate, trials are media events that can have long-reaching significance. They can, and have, changed the way people think, how institutions function, and have shaped public opinions. While this collection on ten trials is about withcraft, slavery, religion, and radicalism, it is, in many ways, the story of America.Trials are the stuff of news. Those rare moments when justice, or a reasonable facsimile, is meted out. And what offers up more high drama, or melodrama, than a highly publicized trial? Most news events enjoy short life spans. They happen; they are reported; they are quickly forgotten. As Chiasson and his contributors make clear, a trial often is a lingering, living thing that builds in tension. It is, every once in a long while, a modern Shakespearean drama with a twist: The audience becomes members of the cast because, every once in a long while, society finds itself the defendant.Trials can have lasting importance beyond how the public perceives them. A trial can have long-reaching significance if it changes the way people think, or how institutions function, or shapes public opinion. Ten such American trials covering a span of 307 years are covered here. In each, the sociological underpinnings of events often has greater significance than either the crime or the trial. The ten trials included are the ...
ISBN10: 027597507X, ISBN13: 9780275975074, [publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - As Chiasson and his contributors illustrate, trials are media events that can have long-reaching significance. They can, and have, changed the way people think, how institutions function, and have shaped public opinions. While this collection on ten trials is about withcraft, slavery, religion, and radicalism, it is, in many ways, the story of America.Trials are the stuff of news. Those rare moments when justice, or a reasonable facsimile, is meted out. And what offers up more high drama, or melodrama, than a highly publicized trial Most news events enjoy short life spans. They happen; they are reported; they are quickly forgotten. As Chiasson and his contributors make clear, a trial often is a lingering, living thing that builds in tension. It is, every once in a long while, a modern Shakespearean drama with a twist: The audience becomes members of the cast because, every once in a long while, society finds itself the defendant.Trials can have lasting importance beyond how the public perceives them. A trial can have long-reaching significance if it changes the way people think, or how institutions function, or shapes public opinion. Ten such American trials covering a span of 307 years are covered here. In each, the sociological underpinnings of events often has greater significance than either the crime or the trial. The ...
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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Illusive Shadows: Justice, Media, and Socially Significant American Trials. ISBN 027597507x 9780275975074 [GB]
Paperback / softback. New. The ten trials included are the Salem witch trials, the Amistad trial, the Sioux Indian Uprising trials, the Ed Johnson/Sheriff Shipp trial, the Big Bill Haywood trial, the Ossian Sweet trial, the Clay Shaw trial, the Manuel Noriega trial, and the Matthew Shepard trial. ISBN 027597507x 9780275975074 [GB]
ISBN10: 027597507X, ISBN13: 9780275975074, [publisher: Praeger] Softcover Like New condition. Great condition, but not exactly fully crisp. The book may have been opened and read, but there are no defects to the book, jacket or pages. [Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2003]
ISBN10: 027597507X, ISBN13: 9780275975074, [publisher: Praeger] Softcover Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within [Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2003]
ISBN10: 027597507X, ISBN13: 9780275975074, [publisher: Praeger] Softcover Book is in Used-LikeNew condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear. [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2003]
ISBN10: 027597507X, ISBN13: 9780275975074, [publisher: Praeger] Softcover New. Fast Shipping and good customer service [Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2003]
ISBN10: 027597507X, ISBN13: 9780275975074, [publisher: Praeger] Softcover May contain writing, notes, highlighting, bends or folds. Text is readable, book is clean, and pages and cover mostly intact. May show normal wear and tear. Item may be missing CD. May include library marks. [Carlstadt, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2003]
ISBN10: 027597507X, ISBN13: 9780275975074, [publisher: Praeger] Softcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.68 [North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2003]
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