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Author: James Gregory Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 135014259X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 288
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Spanning over 2 centuries, James Gregory's Mercy and British Culture, 1760 -1960 provides a wide-reaching yet detailed overview of the concept of mercy in British cultural history. While there are many histories of justice and punishment, mercy has been a neglected element despite recognition as an important feature of the 18th-century criminal code. Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960 looks first at mercy's religious and philosophical aspects, its cultural representations and its embodiment. It then looks at large-scale mobilisation of mercy discourses in Ireland, during the French Revolution, in the British empire, and in warfare from the American war of independence to the First World War. This study concludes by examining mercy's place in a twentieth century shaped by total war, atomic bomb, and decolonisation.
Author: James Gregory Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 135014259X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
Spanning over 2 centuries, James Gregory's Mercy and British Culture, 1760 -1960 provides a wide-reaching yet detailed overview of the concept of mercy in British cultural history. While there are many histories of justice and punishment, mercy has been a neglected element despite recognition as an important feature of the 18th-century criminal code. Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960 looks first at mercy's religious and philosophical aspects, its cultural representations and its embodiment. It then looks at large-scale mobilisation of mercy discourses in Ireland, during the French Revolution, in the British empire, and in warfare from the American war of independence to the First World War. This study concludes by examining mercy's place in a twentieth century shaped by total war, atomic bomb, and decolonisation.
Author: James Gregory (Historian) Publisher: ISBN: 9781350142619 Category : Civilization Languages : en Pages :
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"Employing an innovative cultural-historical approach, James Gregory provides a wide-reaching yet detailed overview of the concept of mercy in modern Britain, spanning over two centuries. Split into 3 main parts, the first explores mercy's religious and philosophical aspects; the second, at the royal acts of mercy from the Hanoverian accession to Victoria's death; and the third, case studies of large-scale mobilization of mercy discourses in Britain, Europe, and the US"--
Author: James Gregory Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 135014245X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 409
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In the first detailed study of its kind, James Gregory's book takes a historical approach to mercy by focusing on widespread and varied discussions about the quality, virtue or feeling of mercy in the British world during Victoria's reign. Gregory covers an impressive range of themes from the gendered discourses of 'emotional' appeal surrounding Queen Victoria to the exercise and withholding of royal mercy in the wake of colonial rebellion throughout the British empire. Against the backdrop of major events and their historical significance, a masterful synthesis of rich source material is analysed, including visual depictions (paintings and cartoons in periodicals and popular literature) and literary ones (in sermons, novels, plays and poetry). Gregory's sophisticated analysis of the multiple meanings, uses and operations of royal mercy duly emphasise its significance as a major theme in British cultural history during the 'long 19th century'. This will be essential reading for those interested in the history of mercy, the history of gender, British social and cultural history and the legacy of Queen Victoria's reign.
Author: Karen Brennan Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1509961666 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 301
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This book provides the first comprehensive and detailed analysis of the Infanticide Act and its impact in England and Wales and around the world. It is 100 years since an Infanticide Act was first passed in England and Wales. The statute, re-enacted in 1938, allows for leniency to be given to women who kill their infants within the first year of life. This legislation is unique and controversial: it creates a specific offence and defence that is available only to women who kill their biological infants. Men and other carers are not able to avail of the special mitigation provided by the Act, nor are women who kill older children. The collection brings together leading experts in the field to offer important insights into the history of the law, how it works today, the impact and legacy of the statute and potential futures of infanticide laws around the world. Contributors consider the Act in practice in England and Wales, the ways it has been portrayed in the British media and justifications for and criticisms of the provision of special treatment for women who kill their infants within a year of birth. It also looks at the criminal justice responses to infanticide in other jurisdictions, such as Australia, Ireland, Sweden and the United States of America.
Author: Dolores MartÃn-Moruno Publisher: ISBN: 1009462245 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 81
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This Element provides a fresh look at humanitarianism by integrating gender, emotions, senses and experiences as central elements of care.
Author: Edwin G. Burrows Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780195140491 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 1422
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From sewers to slavery, skyscrapers to taxation, this is a magisterial history of New York City, from the earliest Indian tribes to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater Manhattan in 1898.
Author: Sabine Sielke Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften ISBN: 9783631665541 Category : Arts and society Languages : en Pages : 0
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This volume examines the role of New York City in and for: globalization, modernist painting, flaneurism, the postmodern city novel, the poetry of Mina Loy, Klaus Nomi's music performances, Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, post-9/11 American cinema, the experimental films of Jem Cohen, the Magnum Photos portfolio, and daily city photo blogs.
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