Jeannie's Demise: Abortion on Trial in Victorian Toronto, Paperback - Ian Radforth

August 1, 1875, Toronto: The naked body of a young woman is discovered in a pine box, half-buried in a ditch along Bloor Street. So begins Jeannie'...

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* An accessible, involving and moving account of the Balkan war criminalsPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Slavenka DrakulicNumber of p...

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This page-turning translation of a seventeenth-century infanticide trial tells the story of a single mother accused of poisoning two children, incl...

Justice in Lyon is a comprehensive history of the trial for crimes against humanity of the Nazi Klaus Barbie.Publisher: University of Toronto Press...

The Strange Affair of Madeleine Smith is an engrossing insight into the suffocating world of Victorian women and the great divide between social cl...

Publisher: The New PressAuthor(s): Jonathan SimonNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 140 x 208 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Fair Mile was more than just a psychiatric hospital; Drawing on county records, first-hand accounts and archive photographs, Fair Mile Hospital des...

Publisher: Skinner House BooksAuthor(s): Mark J. T. (Mark J. T. Caggiano) CaggianoNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 218 x...

In the courtroom, lawyers establish certain facts to prove their cases. But can the legal mind discern the validity of one's belief or unbelief? Wi...

Reducere. Studying the New Testament without a background in the Old is like listening to only the last movement of a great symphony. Unless we begin at the ...

What happens when two intelligent and highly informed fictional college students, one strongly pro choice and the other vigorously pro life, are as...

Layers in Husserl's Phenomenology situates Husserl firmly within the trajectory of later Continental thought and contributes to the recent reconsid...

Men on Trial provides the first history of masculinity and the law in early nineteenth-century Ireland. It combines cutting-edge theories from the ...

By reconstructing the Oxford debate of 1860 on the merits of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, and carefully considering the individual perspecti...

This book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period in England and in New Jersey. -- .Publisher...

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Reducere. Lebsock takes us deep into this contentious, often surprising world, where blacks struggle to hold on to their post-Civil War gains against a risin...

Description In 1855, Glasgow socialite Madeleine Smith began a flirtation with Pierre L'Angelier, a handsome clerk--for her a mere diversion. But ...

Adding to a growing body of knowledge about how the social-ecological dynamics of the Anthropocene affect human health, this collection presents st...

In a broken Britain in which politics has failed, the law is our one defence. But it is under severe threat from a rising tide of populism.

This systematic overview of the main arguments made against human rights is the first of its kind. It proposes a strong democratic defence of human...

DescriptionIn 1939, the Italian writer Giuseppe Jorio (1902 - 1995) enjoyed great success with his debut novel, La Morte di un Uomo (Death of a Man...

Focus on Abortion: Americans Share Their Storiesintroduces the often-missing and most important voices in the abortion conversation: the voices of ...

The ghettos established by the Nazis in German-occupied Eastern Europe during the Second World War have mainly been seen as lawless spaces marked b...

Reducere. With our nation's urban schools growing more segregated every year, Susan Eaton set out to see whether separate can ever really be equal. An award-...

Looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918-24 -- .

This volume fills a gap in Canadian healthcare scholarship by providing a resource for teaching and understanding women's health in this country.Pu...

Informed by the works of international publishing historians, Toronto Trailblazers artfully captures the lasting influence of women on Canadian pub...

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Declares the end of the nation state as a political proposition predicting the dissolution of the state as an organizing framer of politics.

Erasmus on Women offers selections from Erasmus' manuals on marriage and widowhood, his rhetorical treatises, and the Colloquies.Publisher: Univers...

Are the creatures that live in your garden friends or foes? How can you discourage the bad and nurture the good? How does each animal fit into the ...

A landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays, Choice Words collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defen...

In PTSD and the Politics of Trauma in Israel, Keren Friedman-Peleg sheds light on a new way of speaking about mental vulnerability and national bel...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Christopher (King's College London, UK) WinchNumber of pages: 152Collection: Key Debates i...

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Carol MacLeanNumber of pages: 320Collection: The Kiltie Street GirlsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 196 x 29Cov...

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Presents a Westerner's view on Eastern society as it absorbs and assimilates Western values.

Leor Halevi tells the story of the Islamic trials of technological and commercial innovations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....

Is evolution fact or fancy? Is natural selection an unsupported hypothesis or a confirmed mechanism of evolutionary change? These were the courageo...

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