Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England
Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England

Author: Frank McLynn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1136093168

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McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a crude means of redistributing wealth?

The American Historical Review
The American Historical Review

Author: John Franklin Jameson

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 1032

ISBN-13:

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American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.

Sociability and Power in Late-Stuart England
Sociability and Power in Late-Stuart England

Author: Susan E. Whyman

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780199250233

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This highly original study looks at rituals of sociability in new and creative ways. Based upon thousands of personal letters, it reconstructs the changing country and London worlds of an English gentry family and reveals intimate details about the social and cultural life of the period. Challenging current views, the book observes strong connections, instead of deep divisions, between country and city, land and trade, sociability and power. Its very different view undermines established stereotypes of omnipotent male patriarchs, powerless wives and kin, autonomous elder sons, and dependent younger brothers. Gifts of venison and visits in a coach reveal unexpected findings about the subtle power of women over the social code, the importance of younger sons, and the overwhelming impact of London. Successfully combining storytelling and historical analysis, the book recreates everyday lives in a period of overseas expansion, financial revolution, and political turmoil.