Whores and Highwaymen. Crime and Justice in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis, Paperback - Gregory J. Durston

This comprehensive work on the development of summary jurisdiction, early policing and the emergence of London's embryonic modern criminal justice ...

The 'whores' and 'highwaymen' of the title are just some of the dubious characters met within this absorbing work, including thief-takers, trading ...

In this addition to his Crime History Series, Gregory Durston points to the lack of design and short-term expediency that typified Tudor law and or...

DescriptionAs the author notes, 'The early-modern European witch-hunts were neither orchestrated massacres nor spontaneous pogroms. Alleged witches...

A novel, set in the late eighteenth century, about smuggling off the coast of south-east Kent, EnglandPublisher: The Conrad PressAuthor(s): Simon G...

An important part of eighteenth-century maritime conflict involved the destruction of enemy commerce and the protection of home trade. Privateering...

Transylvania in the eighteenth century. Aspects of regional identity - Laura Stanciu, Cosmin Popa-Gorjanu

This collection of essays addresses the belly and the bowels as key elements in our understanding of eighteenth-century mentalities, emotions, and ...

Publisher: British Museum PressIllustration(s): 25 Illustrations, black and white; 245 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 20...

Explores the representation of everyday life across several disciplines in a century known for its interest in individual experience of the mundane...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Evelyn S. RawskiNumber of pages: 270Publication date: 1989Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15Cover type: Paperbac...

The latest in the popular series featuring Matthew Bartholomew, medieval physician/sleuth

Publisher: Bucknell University PressAuthor(s): George E. HaggertyNumber of pages: 186Collection: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850...

Reducere. God's accomplishments through George Whitefield are to this day virtually unparalleled. In an era when many ministers were timid and apologetic in ...

This book examines how sensory experience is conceptualised during the eighteenth century. It draws novel connections between theories of perceptio...

A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. It covers topics that include - di...

Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine ...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Lucas HaasisNumber of pages: 600Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 240 x 48Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emerita Ruth Pritchard (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA) DawsonIllustration(s): 60 bw i...

In this book, David Porter analyses the processes by which Chinese aesthetic ideas were assimilated within English culture. Illustrated with many e...

Part Two of FourSmall Format: 6" x 9"The University of North Georgia Press and Affordable Learning Georgia bring you British Literature: From the M...

Our understanding of warfare at sea in the eighteenth century has always been divorced from the practical realities of fighting at sea under sail; ...

Eighteenth-century theatre critics reserved their highest praise for the transitions of a play, recognising its most striking passages as moments o...

Examines how and why marriage plots became the English novel's most popular form in the eighteenth century. This book will be of interest to studen...

In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen--the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowne...

Reducere. MEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous politic...

Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds t...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Jocelyn (Independent Scholar, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK) AndersonIllustration(s): 8 colour ...

Reducere. Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now...

Embracing history and society, literature and theatre, medicine and religion, author and magician Ian Keable reveals our susceptibility to being du...

Women, Crime and Justice in Context presents contemporary feminist approaches to key issues in criminal justice. It draws together key researchers ...

Women in Wartime demonstrates the startling acuity and prescience of the repertoire in responding to the war-steeped culture of the period.Publishe...

Reducere. In this volume, Caroline Robbins adeptly presents a history of the Commonwealthmen, "a gifted and active minority of the population of the British ...

The Other Rise of the Novel relies on new research concerning the relevance of bourgeois values and ideals in the early modern period in France to ...