Eric C Schneider: 2 books
Smack
Heroin and the American City
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Why do the vast majority of heroin users live in cities? In his provocative history of heroin in the United States, Eric C. Schneider explains what is distinctively urban about this undisputed king of underworld drugs.
During the twentieth century, New York City was the nation's heroin capital—over...
In the Web of Class
Delinquents and Reformers in Boston, 1810s-1930s
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1993
"An analytic overview of the history of social welfare and juvenile justice in Boston..[Schneider] traces cogently the origins, development, and ultimate failure of Protestant and Catholic reformers' efforts to ameliorate working-class poverty and juvenile delinquency."
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