Tiszazug : a social history of a murder epidemic / Béla Bodó.

Author
Bodó, Béla [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Boulder : East European Monographs ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 2002.
Description
xxi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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    Series
    East European monographs ; no. 589. [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-320)
    Contents
    • Pt. I. The Tiszazug Affair as an Event at the Level of Bourgeois Society. 1. Public Opinion. The Murders in the Mirror of the Newspapers. Political Debate on the Causes of the Murders. The Populists' Interpretation of the Poisonings. The Conservative Interpretation of the Homicides. Radical Democracy and the Tiszazug Poisonings. Social Democracy and the Tiszazug Murders. Communist Interpretation of the Murders. The Archeology of the Egyke. Does of the Egyke Explain the Tiszazug Murders? 2. Law Enforcement and Medical Bureaucracy. Police Investigations. Medical and Psychological Examinations. Forensic Medicine. 3. The Trials. The Audience's Behavior in the Courtroom. The Role of the Defendants in the Trials. The Reaction of the Village Community. The Performance of Law Professionals. Justice at the Level of the Supreme Court
    • Pt. II. The Tiszazug Affair as an Event at the Level of Peasant Society. 4. The Causes of Tension in Peasant Society.
    • Infrastructure and Agricultural Production. Social Structure. The Rural Middle Class. The Lower Middle Class. The Agrarian Poor. Crisis of Traditional Peasant Culture. Geographical and Social Mobility. The Social Origins of Poisoning. 5. The Poisonings. The Parameters of the Murders. Infanticides. The Killing of Young Adults. The Destruction of middle-aged Husbands. Killing of the Elderly. Discovery of the Murders.
    ISBN
    0880334878
    OCLC
    50878415
    RCP
    C - S
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