"This book profiles the lives and cases of selected women sentenced to capital punishment in America between 1840 and 1899, most of whom were executed by hanging. The book is divided into chapters by
"Americans have come to realize that many of us may be under surveillance at any time. It all started 150 years ago on the battlefields of the Civil War, where each side tapped the other's telegraph l
Segrave, a cultural historian and author from Canada, surveys the controversy in the US from the late 1880s to about 1920 over the hatpin. As it grew to accommodate larger hats, it was therefore seen
It is at 31.4 years of age that the average woman multiple murderer kills the first of her 17 victims, whom she usually knows or is related to. The preferred method is poison, usually arsenic. She is
"This historical book explores begging and beggars in the period 1850 to 1940, with emphasis on how the police, the courts, the media and private charity organizations dealt with the issue. Efforts to
? The electric vehicle seemed poised in 1900 to be a leader in automotive production. Clean, odorless, noiseless and mechanically simple, electrics rarely broke down and were easy to operate. An ele
This work examines the development and use of the polygraph, from its advent in American academic institutions in the late 1800s, through its gradual adoption in law enforcement and business by the 19
This history recounts the film industry's long, costly battle against unauthorized reproduction, box-office under-reporting, and practices such as "bicycling," where theaters screened films beyond the
After writing social histories of baldness, tipping, movies at home, and other matters, British Columbia-based freelancer Segrave explores shoplifting from American retail stores over the past 140 yea
"Americans began chewing gum long before 1850, scraping resin from spruce trees, removing any bits of bark or insects and chewing the finished product. Commercially-made gum was of limited availabilit
Once the major Hollywood studios got over their loathing of television as an entertainment medium, they moved quickly to try to dominate both domestic and international programming. In the United Stat
Independent scholar Segrave surveys the history of vending machines in America from the late 1880s to 2001. He examines the economic and social factors behind the success of certain types of vending m
Segrave, author of several other books on American culture and social history, traces the history of the jukebox from its origins in the invention of the phonograph in the 1880s, to its disappearance
"This book examines the history of policewomen from 1880 to 2012, particularly in the United States. It looks at the problems women had being accepted into the male police establishment and at the har
Payola is as old as the music industry and continues today. Contrary to popular belief, the acceptance of payola is legal. (Only the nonreporting of it would be illegal.) The recipients of payola an
"The struggles of extras, mostly overlooked and forgotten, to unionize were followed by internal struggles as the extras fought for a voice within that union. It is a story about too few jobs for far
During the last 20 years of the 19th century, cigarette smoking was transformed from a lower-class habit to a favored form of tobacco use for men and practically the only form available to women. The
Police violence is not a new phenomenon. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, police officers in America assaulted or killed many ordinary citizens, often during improper detainments or arrests
