Author: Douglas Hay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140551303
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In the popular imagination, informed as it is by Hogarth, Swift, Defoe and Fielding, the eighteenth-century underworld is a place of bawdy knockabout, rife with colourful eccentrics. But the artistic portrayals we have only hint at the dark reality. In this new edition of a classic collection of essays, renowned social historians from Britain and America examine the gangs of criminals who tore apart English society, while a criminal law of unexampled savagery struggled to maintain stability. Douglas Hay deals with the legal system that maintained the propertied classes, and in another essay shows it in brutal action against poachers; John G. Rule and Cal Winslow tell of smugglers and wreckers, showing how these activities formed a natural part of the life of traditional communities. Together with Peter Linebaugh s piece on the riots against the surgeons at Tyburn, and E. P. Thompson s illuminating work on anonymous threatening letters, these essays form a powerful contribution to the study of social tensions at a transformative and vibrant stage in English history. This new edition includes a new introduction by Winslow, Hay and Linebaugh, reflecting on the turning point in the social history of crime that the book represents
Albion's Fatal Tree
Author: Douglas Hay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140551303
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In the popular imagination, informed as it is by Hogarth, Swift, Defoe and Fielding, the eighteenth-century underworld is a place of bawdy knockabout, rife with colourful eccentrics. But the artistic portrayals we have only hint at the dark reality. In this new edition of a classic collection of essays, renowned social historians from Britain and America examine the gangs of criminals who tore apart English society, while a criminal law of unexampled savagery struggled to maintain stability. Douglas Hay deals with the legal system that maintained the propertied classes, and in another essay shows it in brutal action against poachers; John G. Rule and Cal Winslow tell of smugglers and wreckers, showing how these activities formed a natural part of the life of traditional communities. Together with Peter Linebaugh s piece on the riots against the surgeons at Tyburn, and E. P. Thompson s illuminating work on anonymous threatening letters, these essays form a powerful contribution to the study of social tensions at a transformative and vibrant stage in English history. This new edition includes a new introduction by Winslow, Hay and Linebaugh, reflecting on the turning point in the social history of crime that the book represents
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140551303
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In the popular imagination, informed as it is by Hogarth, Swift, Defoe and Fielding, the eighteenth-century underworld is a place of bawdy knockabout, rife with colourful eccentrics. But the artistic portrayals we have only hint at the dark reality. In this new edition of a classic collection of essays, renowned social historians from Britain and America examine the gangs of criminals who tore apart English society, while a criminal law of unexampled savagery struggled to maintain stability. Douglas Hay deals with the legal system that maintained the propertied classes, and in another essay shows it in brutal action against poachers; John G. Rule and Cal Winslow tell of smugglers and wreckers, showing how these activities formed a natural part of the life of traditional communities. Together with Peter Linebaugh s piece on the riots against the surgeons at Tyburn, and E. P. Thompson s illuminating work on anonymous threatening letters, these essays form a powerful contribution to the study of social tensions at a transformative and vibrant stage in English history. This new edition includes a new introduction by Winslow, Hay and Linebaugh, reflecting on the turning point in the social history of crime that the book represents
Historical Origins of International Criminal Law
Author: Morten Bergsmo
Publisher: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
ISBN: 8283480146
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 845
Book Description
Publisher: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
ISBN: 8283480146
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 845
Book Description
William Shakespeare
Author: Victor Hugo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
A History of the Formation and Development of the Volunteer Infantry
Author: Robert Potter Berry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Huddersfield (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Huddersfield (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Lewis of Warner Hall
Author:
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806308319
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
"According to tradition the Lewis family of 'Warner Hall' is descended from the emigrant Robert Lewis, who came [from England] to Virginia in 1635." Descendants lived throughout the United States.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806308319
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
"According to tradition the Lewis family of 'Warner Hall' is descended from the emigrant Robert Lewis, who came [from England] to Virginia in 1635." Descendants lived throughout the United States.
Comparative Law in a Changing World
Author: Peter De Cruz
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 104027899X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
Providing a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the legal approach to key areas of law within different legal systems, this book offers a blueprint for comparative legal study by evaluating the current epistemological debate on comparative law and comparative legal research methods. Substantive law, the law of obligations, commercial and corporate law within the major legal systems of the world are all examined and compared. While France and Germany are generally used as the archetypal civil law jurisdictions and English law as the main common law comparator, this third edition also examines the Russian Federation in the post-Soviet era and socialist legal influences as well as non-Western legal traditions. Fully updated and revised to include all recent developments, this edition also includes a broad historical introduction and outlines changes in EC Law. It assesses the possibility of Europeanization of national legal systems and certain legal topics, the impact of the globalization of legal institutions and the evolving 'new world order' in the early twenty-first century. Written in a clear, user-friendly style, Comparative Law in a Changing World is an accessible source for undergraduates and postgraduates wishing to trace the influence of common law and civil law legal traditions on jurisdictions across the world.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 104027899X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
Providing a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the legal approach to key areas of law within different legal systems, this book offers a blueprint for comparative legal study by evaluating the current epistemological debate on comparative law and comparative legal research methods. Substantive law, the law of obligations, commercial and corporate law within the major legal systems of the world are all examined and compared. While France and Germany are generally used as the archetypal civil law jurisdictions and English law as the main common law comparator, this third edition also examines the Russian Federation in the post-Soviet era and socialist legal influences as well as non-Western legal traditions. Fully updated and revised to include all recent developments, this edition also includes a broad historical introduction and outlines changes in EC Law. It assesses the possibility of Europeanization of national legal systems and certain legal topics, the impact of the globalization of legal institutions and the evolving 'new world order' in the early twenty-first century. Written in a clear, user-friendly style, Comparative Law in a Changing World is an accessible source for undergraduates and postgraduates wishing to trace the influence of common law and civil law legal traditions on jurisdictions across the world.
Antiquarian Notes: a Series of Papers Regarding Families and Places in the Highlands. [Reprinted from the Inverness Advertiser and the Scottish Highlander.] 2 Ser
Author: Charles Fraser Mackintosh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Defences Or Objections for His Majesty's Advocate in Behalf of the Crown, Against the Claims of John Earl of Stair
Author: John Dalrymple Earl of Stair
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
The Tunis Hood Family
Author: Dellmann Osborne Hood
Publisher: Binford & Mort Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
This is the biography of the Tunis Family a more or less typical very early American Family; its ancestry, national origin and far flung branches of thousands of known descendants and allied connections.
Publisher: Binford & Mort Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
This is the biography of the Tunis Family a more or less typical very early American Family; its ancestry, national origin and far flung branches of thousands of known descendants and allied connections.
The Huguenots
Author: Samuel Smiles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337002855
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Huguenots - Their Settlements, Churches, and Industries in England and Ireland. Sixth Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337002855
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Huguenots - Their Settlements, Churches, and Industries in England and Ireland. Sixth Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.