Crime and the Rise of Modern America

<p></p> <p>In <em>Crime and the Rise of Modern America</em> Kristofer Allerfeldt studies the crimes criminals and law enforcement that have contributed to a uniquely American system of crime and punishment from the end of the Civil War to the eve of World War II to understand how the rapidly-changing technology of transportation media and incarceration have affected the criminal underworld.</p> <p></p> <p>In ten thematic chapters <em>Crime and the Rise of Modern America</em> turns to the outlaws of the iconic West and the illegal distilleries of Prohibition the turn-of-the-century immigrants and the conmen who preyed on the people of the Promised Land to examine how crime and America both changed defining each other.<em> </em></p>