Hanging, the Electric Chair, and Death Penalty Reform in the Early Twentieth-Century South

2019 ◽  
pp. 170-191
Author(s):  
Vivien Miller
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Southern States ◽  
New Class ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Electric Chair ◽  
State Bureaucracy ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Industrial State

examines the moment when southern states adopted the electric chair by studying Florida’s fraught and uneven transition in the 1920s. Compared to the amateurish and messy practice of hanging, the electric chair offered efficiency, professionalism, and privacy, leading state officials to celebrate it as a form of “penal modernism.” This modernism, however, shifted authority of criminal justice from local sheriffs to a centralized state bureaucracy. This chapter highlights the effects of this shift on long-standing execution rituals, which came to be imbued with new class, gender, and racial constrictions that were emblematic of the modernizing, industrial state.

“A Land for a People, Not a People for a Land”

2021 ◽  
pp. 182-200
Author(s):  
Gur Alroey
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Political Force ◽  
Jewish Society ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Land Of Israel

Territorialist ideology emerged together with Zionist ideology. From the moment Leon Pinsker wrote in his Auto-Emancipation that “the goal of our present endeavors must be not the Holy Land, but a land of our own,” there were those in Jewish society who clung to the idea of “a land of our own” and wanted to set up some independent autonomous entity outside of the Land of Israel. This chapter traces territorial ideology from its ideational beginnings in the 1880s, through its conversion into an organized ideology and a political force in the Jewish world of the early twentieth century to its decline in the 1950s.

scholarly journals Sources of Public Response to the Death Penalty in Britain, 1930–65

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lizzie Seal
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Public Response ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Research Workshop ◽  
Criminology And Criminal Justice ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThis article by Lizzie Seal is adapted from a presentation given at the Sources and Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice socio-legal research workshop that was held at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in November 2015. It explores the selection of qualitative sources for a project that aimed to uncover public responses to capital punishment in the mid twentieth-century. The article discusses which sources were selected and considers their strengths and weaknesses. It concludes that the particular sources chosen as data can, in themselves, help to shape researchers’ thinking about their findings.

scholarly journals Anglicismos y galicismos en los orígenes de la lengua del boxeo

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 108-125
Author(s):  
Clara Ayuso Collantes
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Siglo Xx

La lengua del boxeo se forma en España a principios del siglo XX, cuando este deporte echa a andar. Las noticias y crónicas deportivas aparecidas en los diarios de entonces —el madrileño ABC y el barcelonés El Mundo Deportivo— sirven de base para elaborar el corpus de anglicismos y galicismos que entraron en el primer tercio de siglo para nombrar conceptos técnicos y específicos de este deporte. Se considera el momento de penetración de estos neologismos, su uso y pervivencia. En este primer tercio de siglo fue cuando mayor número de extranjerismos penetraron, que posteriormente irían consolidándose, adaptándose o desapareciendo. The language of boxing was formed in Spain in the early twentieth century, when this sport started up. The informations and the sport chronicles featured in the newspapers at the time, the madrilian ABC and The Mundo Deportivo of Barcelona, were the basis to elaborate the corpus of anglicisms and gallicisms which entered of the first third of the century to designate technical and specific concepts of this sport. It is considered the moment of incursion of these neologisms, its use and survival. It was in the first third of the century when a greater number of foreign expressions entered, which would later consolidate, adapt or disappear.

A Not-So-Nuevo Past: Latina Histories in the US South

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-78
Author(s):  
Sarah McNamara
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Gender And Politics ◽  
Us South ◽  
Southern States ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Us ◽  
Economic Injustice ◽  
Luisa Capetillo

This essay blends the biographies of three Latinas — Luisa Capetillo, Luisa Moreno, and Viridiana Martínez — who combated social and economic injustice in the US South. By uniting the lives of these women, who lived during distinct eras and never physically met, this piece illustrates that neither the history nor the presence of Latinas/os is new to the region and that many of the challenges present-day activists face are similar to the injustices Latinas and Latinos fought in the early twentieth century. It argues that to fully understand the region, including its complicated histories of race, gender, and politics, scholars must join the narratives of Latinas/os who immigrated to southern states during earlier eras with the stories of recent arrivals.

The Memory about Yury F. Samarin and his Heritage in the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth and the Early Twentieth Century: Constructing the Image of a Thinker

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 381-390
Author(s):  
Maxim V. Medovarov
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Review Journal ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Revolution

The article is devoted to the constructing of the image of Yury F. Samarin in the Russian public consciousness from the moment of his death in 1876 to the revolution of 1917. Attention is paid to the collection of speeches in his memory. The book by Peter Linitsky and the polemics of Vladimir Solovyov and Dmitry Samarin about Slavophilism are analyzed with reference to the heritage of Yuri Samarin. The author also analyzes the appraisal of the thinker by other conservatives, primarily on the materials of “Russkoe Obozrenie” (“Russian Review”) journal. He comes to the conclusion that the heritage of Yuri Samarin was studied only fragmentary by the beginning of the 20th century, and his image in the Russian public consciousness was not yet fixed and clearly defined.

scholarly journals The Better Films Movement and the Very Notion of It

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 46-68
Author(s):  
Jennifer Horne
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Individual Activity ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Social Subordination ◽  
The Moment

This essay considers the historical and conceptual framing of the American better films initiatives of the early twentieth century. Starting with the observation that the film betterment campaigns coincided with the moment women en masse began to be admitted to decision-making processes of government and civic enterprises, the article connects the advances achieved in both spheres with the downplaying of better films achievements by historians of cinema. In doing so, it calls for a more complex explanation of this so-called movement in order to understand women's active participation in their own social subordination. It proposes that women's well-documented exclusion from politics, and the systematic exemption of their collective and individual activity in matters of social organization and politics, should be taken into greater consideration by theorists of cinema.

Corporealizing Colonial Modernities

Dancing Women ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 91-138
Author(s):  
Usha Iyer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Global History ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Classical Dance ◽  
New Class ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of

Chapter 3 focuses on Azurie and Sadhona Bose, once-famous, now-forgotten dancing stars of the 1930s–1940s, to excavate an intersecting, global history of early twentieth-century discourses on dance, featuring figures like Ruth St. Denis, Anna Pavlova, Rabindranath Tagore, Uday Shankar, and Rukmini Devi Arundale, among many others. Situating Bose, the Bengali bhadramahila, and Azurie, an Indo-German “dancing girl,” as co-choreographers of new mobilities throws light on cosmopolitan, transnational dance networks that intersected with nationalist projects of modernity. This chapter relates these dancer-actresses to the so-called revival of classical dance forms, which involved an appropriation of the cultural practices of traditional performers like devadasis and tawaifs by upper-caste, upper-class performers. By reading Bose and Azurie’s performing bodies and careers alongside each other, this chapter dislodges unitary accounts of the impulses and controversies around dance on film by a new class of urban performers.

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