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Originally released as Fell's United States Coin Book, this
edition, revised in the Fell's Official Know-It-All Series, is
required reading for both serious and beginning coin collectors.
With hundreds of updated coin photos and thousands of prices, this
book has been a perennial favorite since 1943.
Lane here illuminates the African-American experience through a
close look at a single city, once the metropolitan headquarters of
black America, now typical of many. He recognizes that urban
history offers more clues, both to modern accomplishments and to
modern problems, than the dead past of rural slavery. The book's
historical section is based on hundreds of newly discovered
scrapbooks kept by William Henry Dorsey, Philadelphia's first black
historian. These provide an intimate and comprehensive view of the
critical period between the Civil War and about 1900, when
African-Americans, formally free and increasingly urban, made the
biggest educational and occupational gains in history. Dorsey's
tens of thousands of newspaper clippings and other sources, detail
records of high culture and low, success and scandal, personal and
public life. In the final chapters Lane outlines the urban
situation today, the strong parallels between past and present that
suggest the power of continuity and the equally strong differences
that point to the possibility of change.
Cranborne Chase is an area of chalk highland and valleys traversing
Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire. Royalty once came here to hunt
deer and other game in an area that became known as the Chase. It
remains a landscape that feels like a painting of the past, with
open chalk downland, wide expansive skies, dramatic escarpments and
panoramic views. Renowned for its archaeological treasures, it
remains largely unspoilt with its own sense of remoteness. Chalk
river valleys provide a contrast with hidden villages, churches and
manor houses surrounded by ancient woodlands, forming an
atmospheric landscape where nature and humanity live hand in hand.
In this book Roger Lane traces elements of the region's history,
occasionally with personal anecdotes adding to the interest. He and
Roger Holman are acclaimed photographers with an intimate knowledge
of the area. Here, their photography will inform and delight both
visitors and residents alike.
Edmund Lester Pearson (1880-1937) was a popular New York journalist
and writer. In the 1920s and 1930s he was considered one of the
country's best trial and crime reporters. Between 1924, the year
Studies in Murder was first printed and 1936 he published six books
about murder cases.
In the late nineteenth century, life became more stable and orderly
for most American city dwellers, but not for blacks. Roger Lane
offers a historical explanation for the rising levels of black
urban crime and family instability during this paradoxical era.
Philadelphia serves as test case because of the richness of the
data: DuBois's classic study, "The Philadelphia Negro," newspapers,
records of the criminal justice system and other local agencies,
and the federal census. The author presents numerical details,
along with many examples of the human stories--social and
political--behind the statistics.
Lane reveals how social and economic discrimination created a
black criminal subculture. This subculture, overlooked by those
histories depending on often inaccurate census materials, eroded
family patterns, encouraged violence, discouraged efforts at
middle-class respectability, and intensified employment problems by
adding white fear to the white prejudice that had helped to create
it.
Modern crime rates and patterns are shown to be products of a
historical culture that can be traced from its formative years to
the 1980s. Lane not only charts Philadelphia's story but also makes
suggestions regarding national and international patterns.
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