Elizabeth Kelly Gray
Biographic Data
| ID | 6554688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Kelly Gray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth Kelly |
| FAMILY NAME | Gray |
| SIGNATURE | GRAY E K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Towson University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Social Poison
In Social Poison, Howard Padwa explores “what has led different countries to tackle the drug problem in different ways” (5). To answer that question, he studied the approaches of Great Britain and France, as both countries strengthened their drug policies in the early twentieth century. Britons addicted to morphine and heroin were given access to maintenance programs, but maintenance was illegal in France—even some amputees were denied morphine. …
The World by Gaslight
Urban‐gothic literature in late antebellum New York presented readers with lurid descriptions of the nation's burgeoning cities. But scholars have not explored the many foreign allusions in these popular works. To emphasize the dire conditions, authors presented urban denizens as akin to stereotypical foreigners who were neither white nor Christian: they were as socially stratified as Indians, as lascivious as Turks, or as immoral as "Hottentots.…
“Whisper to him the word ‘India’”
The British Empire—especially India—featured prominently in antebellum American debates about filibustering, slavery, and abolition and suggests yet another international context in which to understand those debates. When Parliament ended most slavery in the British Empire in the 1830s, American abolitionists used reports of the peaceful transition in South Africa to denounce warnings that chaos always followed emancipation. Those in the U. S.’s …
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“Whisper to him the word ‘India’”
The British Empire—especially India—featured prominently in antebellum American debates about filibustering, slavery, and abolition and suggests yet another international context in which to understand those debates. When Parliament ended most slavery in the British Empire in the 1830s, American abolitionists used reports of the peaceful transition in South Africa to denounce warnings that chaos always followed emancipation. Those in the U. S.’s …
The World by Gaslight
Urban‐gothic literature in late antebellum New York presented readers with lurid descriptions of the nation's burgeoning cities. But scholars have not explored the many foreign allusions in these popular works. To emphasize the dire conditions, authors presented urban denizens as akin to stereotypical foreigners who were neither white nor Christian: they were as socially stratified as Indians, as lascivious as Turks, or as immoral as "Hottentots.…
Social Poison
In Social Poison, Howard Padwa explores “what has led different countries to tackle the drug problem in different ways” (5). To answer that question, he studied the approaches of Great Britain and France, as both countries strengthened their drug policies in the early twentieth century. Britons addicted to morphine and heroin were given access to maintenance programs, but maintenance was illegal in France—even some amputees were denied morphine. …
History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · American History and Culture (1 work) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 work) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (1 work) · Criminology (1 work) · Drug (1 work) · Drug control (1 work)