Jr. - Social & Cultural Studies 70

From a local ballot initiative in Massachusetts, the nuclear weapons freeze movement has grown during the last three years into an important national issue. By 1983, Congress had been asked to consi……続きを見る

The Darkest Urge. . . To his friends and neighbors, Jeffrey Mailhot was an ordinary, law-abiding motorcycle enthusiast with a fondness for 80's rock 'n roll. But there was a dark side to Mailhot--an……続きを見る

Anthony Riela attended the notorious upstate New York Apalachin meeting of mobsters on November 14, 1957. The conclave took place at the home of beer distributor Joseph Barbara Sr. An alert policema……続きを見る

Abraham Chait was involved in harness racing and ran Putnam Valley Stables. He was heavily invested in the Algam Corporation that controlled racing at Yonkers Raceway. Chait's role in organized crim……続きを見る

Joseph Stracci was Harlem Mafia soldier associated with the Lucchese crime family. A brother-in-law of ex-Welfare Island inmate Joseph "Tough Joe" Rao, Stracci was closely tied to corruption in the ……続きを見る

Portugal's early developmental experience created a highly centralized administrative state that continues to have a powerful influence on the nature and style of the country's government and politi……続きを見る

Rosario Palmeiri was a Genovese caporegime who was closely tied to Michele "Mike" Miranda, Ernest "the Hawk" Rupolo as well as "Don Vitone" Vito Genovese. Palmieri, aka Sally Young, made headlines i……続きを見る

In January 2006, Palestinian voters shocked the Western world by giving Hamas a majority of seats in the parliamentary elections. Stunned Westerners found it hard to imagine how the blood-soaked Isl……続きを見る

A new kind of war came to America on September 11, 2001. It came on the silver wings of four Boeing jet liners. Middle Eastern hijackers turned four commercial aircraft into flying bombs. Two jets s……続きを見る

Boko Haram is running wild, spreading death and destruction deep in the heart of Africa. Its very name has become a national symbol for fear in Nigeria. Allied with the Islamic State, and inspired b……続きを見る

The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s oldest and largest Islamist organization, is the father, mother, and guiding light of several of the world’s leading terrorist groups. Members of the Brotherhood (als……続きを見る

In Infamous Commerce, Laura J. Rosenthal uses literature to explore the meaning of prostitution from the Restoration through the eighteenth century, showing how both reformers and libertines constru……続きを見る

For more than one hundred years, governments have grappled with the complex problem of how to revitalize distressed urban areas. In 1995, the original urban Empowerment Zones (Atlanta, Baltimore, Ch……続きを見る

In 1974-1975 Playboy Magazine founder Hugh Hefner was at the center of a drug investigation that cost the life of one of his most essential employees. Roberta "Bobbie" Arnstein was found dead in a l……続きを見る

This book offers a strategic, organizational, and logistical analysis in a historical context of the planning of conventional forces to meet a limited contingency. The central question is: Why, from……続きを見る

In 1946, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights became the first international body empowered to promote global human rights. During its first twenty years, the Commission established most of……続きを見る

Salvatore Carta was a member of a Genovese family protection racket headed by Yonkers hoodlum John Tortora. The racket preyed on Yonkers and Westchester County restaurant and bar owners. Tortora was……続きを見る

Coercion, it seems, like poverty and prejudice, has always been with us. Political thinkers and philosophers have been arguing its more direct and personal consequences for centuries. Today, at a po……続きを見る

A strong case can be made that the South has had the greatest impact of any region on the transformation of U.S. politics and government. Since 1968, we have seen the demise of the "solid (Democrati……続きを見る

John Nardi's May 1977 bombing murder was one of many that occurred during a gang war for Cleveland Mafia supremacy. Nardi was closely linked to murdered Irish mobster Daniel "Danny" Greene. Nardi wa……続きを見る

A Profaci family soldier, Aurelius Cirillo was murdered during a hotel tryst with his married girlfriend. The incident occurred some two years after the start of a gang war between the Profacis and ……続きを見る

Explore the increased need for marketing within the political arena Current Issues in Political Marketing presents up-to-date theory and research findings from academics working in political science……続きを見る

Frank Illiano was a member of the Gallo brothers gang that separated itself from the criminal syndicate run by Giuseppe "Joseph" Profaci. By 1961 the Gallos, Albert, Larry, and "Crazy Joe" were at t……続きを見る

For most historians, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the hostilities of the Civil War and the dashed hopes of Reconstruction give way to the nationalizing forces of cultural re……続きを見る

Piano teacher/voice coach Charles William Yukl was the son of a Czech musician. In 1966 he was doubling as a building manager for a Manhattan brownstone. One of his pupils was Suzanne Reynolds, an a……続きを見る

Ao entrar na leitura deste livro, o leitor passa a sentir o ar do universo de quem utiliza suas vivências como forma de compreender o mundo, as relações e, mais, como forma de transformar o coletivo……続きを見る

A great deal of argument about the theory and practice of imperialism has been generated in recent years, much of it Eurocentric and much of it focusing on the causes of imperialism. In this singula……続きを見る

In 1969 Yonkers' mobster John Mafioso was the victim of a frame-up involving attorneys for Babylon, New York nightclub owner Julius "Julie" Klein Jr. Klein was accused of murdering his brother-in-la……続きを見る

George Milazzo's murder was one of four that occurred in quick succession in September and October 1952. Milazzo was a small-time drug dealer who had squealed to avoid prison time a year earlier. Mi……続きを見る

In August 1938 a group of fur swindlers, assisted by New York City Patrolmen were part of a $400,000 silver fox fur swindle. The two furriers who were swindled of their prized furs were Irving Brave……続きを見る