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Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A Genuine Account of the Life of John Rann
Author: The Genuine Life of John Rann, Otherwise Sixteen-strings Jack, Etc. [With a Portrait Inserted.].
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Author: John RANNA Genuine Account of the Life of John Rann
Author: A Genuine Account of the Life of John Rann, Alias Sixteen-string Jack,
Author: The Genuine Memoirs of the Life of John Rann, Alias Sixteen-String Jack
Author: The Genuine Life of John Rann, Otherwise Sixteen-strings Jack
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Category : Brigands and robbers
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library)Publisher: Boston : The Trustees
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
London Lives
Author: Tim HitchcockPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107025273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
This book surveys the lives and experiences of hundreds of thousands of eighteenth-century non-elite Londoners in the evolution of the modern world.
A Cultural History of Law in the Age of Enlightenment
Author: Rebecca ProbertPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350079251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The period of the Enlightenment was marked by innovation in political, cultural, religious, and educational ideas with the aim of improving the experience of human beings in society. Key to intellectual debates and day-to-day life were ideas about the law. Many looked to Britain, and to the British, as exemplars of a state governed by moderate laws under a moderate constitution. Britain's laws and constitution were portrayed and satirized in almost every artistic medium. A Cultural History of Law in the Age of Enlightenment presents essays spanning the “long 18th century” (1680 to 1820) which explore the place of law in a range of creative and artistic media, all of which flourished in a commercial society with law at its center and enlightenment as its aim. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, A Cultural History of Law in the Age of Enlightenment presents essays that examine key cultural case studies of the period on the themes of justice, constitution, codes, agreements, arguments, property and possession, wrongs, and the legal profession.
Undertaker of the Mind
Author: Jonathan AndrewsPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520927858
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
As visiting physician to Bethlem Hospital, the archetypal "Bedlam" and Britain's first and (for hundreds of years) only public institution for the insane, Dr. John Monro (1715–1791) was a celebrity in his own day. Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull call him a "connoisseur of insanity, this high priest of the trade in lunacy." Although the basics of his life and career are well known, this study is the first to explore in depth Monro's colorful and contentious milieu. Mad-doctoring grew into a recognized, if not entirely respectable, profession during the eighteenth century, and besides being affiliated with public hospitals, Monro and other mad-doctors became entrepreneurs and owners of private madhouses and were consulted by the rich and famous. Monro's close social connections with members of the aristocracy and gentry, as well as with medical professionals, politicians, and divines, guaranteed him a significant place in the social, political, cultural, and intellectual worlds of his time. Andrews and Scull draw on an astonishing array of visual materials and verbal sources that include the diaries, family papers, and correspondence of some of England's wealthiest and best-connected citizens. The book is also distinctive in the coverage it affords to individual case histories of Monro's patients, including such prominent contemporary figures as the Earls Ferrers and Orford, the religious "enthusiast" Alexander Cruden, and the "mad" King George III, as well as his crazy would-be assassin, Margaret Nicholson. What the authors make clear is that Monro, a serious physician neither reactionary nor enlightened in his methods, was the outright epitome of the mad-trade as it existed then, esteemed in some quarters and ridiculed in others. The fifty illustrations, expertly annotated and integrated with the text, will be a revelation to many readers.