Prosecuting Homicide in Eighteenth-Century Law and Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prosecuting Homicide in Eighteenth-Century Law and Practice write by Drew D. Gray. This book was released on 2020-02-19. Prosecuting Homicide in Eighteenth-Century Law and Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume uses four case studies, all with strong London connections, to analyze homicide law and the pardoning process in eighteenth-century England. Each reveals evidence of how attempts were made to negotiate a path through the justice system to avoid conviction, and so avoid a sentence of hanging. This approach allows a deep examination of the workings of the justice system using social and cultural history methodologies. The cases explore wider areas of social and cultural history in the period, such as the role of policing agents, attitudes towards sexuality and prostitution, press reporting, and popular conceptions of "honorable" behavior. They also allow an engagement with what has been identified as the gradual erosion of individual agency within the law, and the concomitant rise of the state. Investigating the nature of the pardoning process shows how important it was to have "friends in high places," and also uncovers ways in which the legal system was susceptible to accusations of corruption. Readers will find an illuminating view of eighteenth-century London through a legal lens.
Cultural Histories of Law, Media and Emotion
Cultural Histories of Law, Media and Emotion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Histories of Law, Media and Emotion write by Katie Barclay. This book was released on 2022-07-21. Cultural Histories of Law, Media and Emotion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cultural Histories of Law, Media and Emotion: Public Justice explores how the legal history of long-eighteenth-century Britain has been transformed by the cultural turn, and especially the associated history of emotion. Seeking to reflect on the state of the field, 13 essays by leading and emerging scholars bring cutting-edge research to bear on the intersections between law, print culture and emotion in Britain across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Divided into three sections, this collection explores the ‘public’ as a site of legal sensibility; it demonstrates how the rhetoric of emotion constructed the law in legal practice and in society and culture; and it highlights how approaches from cultural and emotions history have recentred the individual, the biography and the group to explain long-running legal-historical problems. Across this volume, authors evidence how engagements between cultural and legal history have revitalised our understanding of law’s role in eighteenth-century culture and society, not least deepening our understanding of justice as produced with and through the public. This volume is the ideal resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in the history of emotions as well as the legal history of Britain from the late seventeenth to the nineteenth century.
Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900
Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900 write by Simon Devereaux. This book was released on 2023-10-26. Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book charts the history of execution laws and practices in the era of the 'Bloody Code' and their extraordinary transformation by 1900. Innovative and comprehensive, this work will find an audience with scholars interested in the history of crime and punishment in England.
Making the Union Work
Making the Union Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making the Union Work write by Alexander Murdoch. This book was released on 2020-04-07. Making the Union Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Making the Union Work: Scotland, 1651–1763, explores and analyses existing narratives of Jacobitism and Unionism in late seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century Scotland. Using in-depth archival research, the book questions the extent to which the currency of kinship patronage politics persisted in Scotland as the competing ideologies of Scottish Jacobitism and British Whiggism grew. It discusses the connection between the manifest corruption of patronage politics and the efflorescence of the Scottish Enlightenment. It also examines the stance taken by David Hume and Adam Smith in defining themselves as philosophers first, Whigs second, but Scots above all else, and analyses whether they achieved international success because of or despite the parliamentary union with England in 1707. Organised chronologically and concluding with an assessment of the newly formed United Kingdom in the decades following the 1707 union, Making the Union Work: Scotland, 1651–1763 will be of great interest to researchers and academics of early modern Scotland.
From Classical to Modern Republicanism
From Classical to Modern Republicanism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Classical to Modern Republicanism write by Mark Hulliung. This book was released on 2020-05-25. From Classical to Modern Republicanism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1955 Louis Hartz published a volume titled The Liberal Tradition in America, in which he argued that liberalism was the one and only American tradition. Since then scholars of New Left and neoconservative persuasion have offered an alternative account based on the notion that the civic notions of antiquity continued to dominate political thought in modern times. Against this revisionist view the argument of From Classical to Modern Liberalism is that we need to study America in comparative perspective, and if we do so we shall discover that republicanism in the modern world was distinctively modern, drawing upon ideas of natural rights, consent, and social contract. Rather than a struggle between liberalism and republicanism, we should speak about liberal republicanism. Rather than republicanism versus liberalism, we should address liberalism versus illiberalism, the true issue of our age.
