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Lust, commerce, and corruption : an account of what I have seen and heard, by an Edo Samurai /

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The enemy within fears of corruption in the Civil War North / by Smith, Michael Thomas, 1970-

Subjects: “…Political corruption United States History 19th century.…”
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Scandal : the sexual politics of the British constitution / by Clark, Anna

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King of the Bowery Big Tim Sullivan, Tammany Hall, and New York City from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era / by Welch, Richard F.

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Party games getting, keeping, and using power in Gilded Age politics / by Summers, Mark W. (Mark Wahlgren), 1951-

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Salt warriors insurgency on the Rio Grande / by Cool, Paul, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Community -- pt. 2. Corruption -- pt. 3. Chaos -- pt. 4. Coda.…”
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Foul bodies cleanliness in early America / by Brown, Kathleen M., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Caring for the early modern body -- Skin -- Corruption -- Empire's new clothes -- Gentility -- Virtue -- Reimagining sickness and health -- Healing housework -- Redemption -- Laborers -- Immersion -- Mission.…”
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The imagined underworld sex, crime, and vice in porfirian Mexico City / by Garza, James Alex

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Charting the imagined city -- The terror of Peralvillo, "El Chalequero" -- Love, betrayal, and death in the underworld -- Organized crime and the porfirian state -- Disease, decay, and the strange case of Federico Abrego and María Barrera -- Politics, corruption, and the Arnulfo Arroyo affair -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire : Microcosms of Modernity / by Schull, Kent F.

Table of Contents: “…Ottoman criminal justice and the transformation of Islamic criminal law and punishment in the age of modernity, 1839-1922 -- Prison reform in the late Ottoman Empire : the state's perspectives -- Counting the incarcerated : knowledge, power and the prison population -- The spatialisation of incarceration : reforms, response and the reality of prison life -- Disciplining the disciplinarians : combating corruption and abuse through the professionalisation of the prison cadre -- Creating juvenile delinquents : redefining childhood in the late Ottoman Empire.…”
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Criminal injustice slaves and free Blacks in Georgia's criminal justice system / by McNair, Glenn, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…"My Lord, they are stark mad after Negroes" : slavery and the corruption of Georgia's legal culture -- "For the better ordering and governing Negroes" : Blacks and the law -- "Negroes might cut the throats of our people" : Black crime and its causes -- "Some convenient method and form of tryal" : the trial process -- "The slave should look to his master and the courts to avenge his wrongs" : the appellate process -- "May the Lord have mercy on his soul" : punishment.…”
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Winchester warriors Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874-1901 / by Alexander, Bob (James R.)

Table of Contents: “…A carnival of crime and corruption -- A big six-shooter and a good horse -- I'm shot, sure as hell -- I was acting the fool kid -- As yet they've harmed no good men -- They'd killed every damn one of us -- Buckskin officials in full blast -- Or borrow from some of the men -- Walked into his own trap -- Got drunk often, and stayed drunk long -- Smoke boiled from that gentleman's gun -- A deplorable mistake on both sides -- A dynamite cartridge under the saloon -- Compelled to do some killing -- But such is life in the Far West -- Wants us in the parade.…”
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Mad tales from the Raj colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58 / by Ernst, Waltraud, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : colonizing the mind -- Madness and the politics of colonial rule: Ideological positions ; Bureaucracy, corruption and public opinion ; The sick, the poor and the mad ; Administrative reforms and legal provision -- The institutions: The role of institutionalization ; Towards uniformity ; Inside the institutions -- The medical profession: The search for fortune and professional recognition ; The medicalization of madness ; The subordination of 'native' medicine ; Medicine and empire -- The patients: 'Highly irregular conduct' and 'neglect of duty' ; 'Drawn very much from the same class' ; A passage from India ; The changing fortunes of asylum inmates ; Being insane in British India -- Medical theories and practices: Popular images and medical concepts ; 'Moral' therapy, 'mental' illness and 'physical' derangement ; Diagnostics and therapeutic practice ; Aetiology and prognosis ; Treatment ; The question of 'non-restraint' ; Social discrimination, racial prejudice and medical concepts ; East is East, and West is best -- Conclusion : 'Mad dogs and Englishmen-- '.…”
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Imperiled innocents Anthony Comstock and family reproduction in Victorian America / by Beisel, Nicola Kay

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Policemen of the Tsar : Local Police in an Age of Upheaval / by Abbott, Robert J. (Robert James), 1945-

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The Vanguard of the Atlantic World : Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America / by Sanders, James E., 1971-

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