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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bodó, Béla.

Series:

East European monographs ; no. 589.

East European monographs ; no. 589

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murder--Social aspects--Hungary--Tiszazug Region.

Murder.

Murderers--Social aspects--Hungary--Tiszazug Region.

Murderers.

Poisoners--Social aspects--Hungary--Tiszazug Region.

Poisoners.

Infanticide--Social aspects--Hungary--Tiszazug Region.

Infanticide.

Social aspects.

Hungary.

Physical Description:

xxi, 320 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder ; New York : East European Monographs : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 2002.

Summary:

In 1929 no fewer than fifty inhabitants of the Hungarian village of Tiszazug were poisoned with arsenic, ostensibly by female relatives. While focusing on the trials which resulted in several death sentences and more acquittals, Bodi places the entire case within the context of the cultural differences between urban and rural Hungarian societies and the perceptions of and prejudices against peasant culture exhibited during the several trials lasting nearly two years.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-320) and indexes.

ISBN:

0880334878

OCLC:

50878415