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Author: Alan Brooke
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2005-11-17
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 0752495798
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTyburn is synonymous with the idea of execution. The authors tell the story of how Tyburn came to be the place of execution and of the rituals and spectacle associated with the deaths of many people. They provide a vivid picture of crime and punishment in London, mixing martyrs, pickpockets, traitors and errant aristocrats.
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 578
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ken Leyton-Brown
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2010-04-10
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 0774859326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is easy to forget that the death penalty was an accepted aspect of Canadian culture and criminal justice until 1976. The Practice of Execution in Canada is not about what led some to the gallows and others to escape it. Rather, it examines how the routine rituals and practices of execution can be seen as a crucial social institution. Drawing on hundreds of case files, Ken Leyton-Brown shows that from trial to interment, the practice of execution was constrained by law and tradition. Despite this, however, the institution was not rigid. Criticism and reform pushed executions out of the public eye, and in so doing, stripped them of meaningful ritual and made them more vulnerable to criticism.
Author: David Brandon
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2011-09-30
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0752468200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy is the highwayman largely perceived as a romantic, glamorous and gallant figure? How is it that men who were really nothing more than bandits, who were often gratuitously violent, sometimes murderers and rapists as well, have become the swashbuckling heroes of history? To put their roles in context, the book probes into the economic, social and technological factors that at certain times made highway robbery highly lucrative and which help to explain why some of its exponents eventually disappeared from the scene. Finally, the legacy of the highwaymen on pub signs, in films and in fiction is discussed. Informative, stimulating and entertaining, from the pen of a true enthusiast, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the dramatic, murky underworld of history.
Author: George Walter Thornbury
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Published: 1873
Total Pages: 602
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Hostettler
Publisher: Waterside Press
Published: 2009-01-12
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1906534799
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An ideal introduction to the rich history of criminal justice charting all its main developments from the dooms of Anglo-Saxon times to the rise of the Common Law, struggles for political, legislative and judicial ascendency and the formation of the innovative Criminal Justice System of today."-back cover.
Author: Bernard Mandeville
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Published: 2018-04-19
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781379814313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T061379 With a half-title. P.4 has at foot the press-figure 4; variant: no press figure on p.4. London: printed: and sold by J. Roberts, 1725. [16],55, [1]p.; 8°
Author: George Byron Gordon
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 414
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frances Timbers
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2016-01-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0271091312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMary Parish wasn’t your ordinary seventeenth-century woman. She was a “cunning woman,” who spent her time in the realm of magic, interacting with fairies, hunting for buried treasures, and communicating with the spirit world, along with her partner, the young aristocrat Goodwin Wharton. Drawing largely from Goodwin’s personal journals, Frances Timbers reconstructs Mary’s life in this microhistory, and explores themes of class, gender, and relationships in seventeenth-century England. Mary’s story provides insight into magical beliefs and practices of early modern history, and sheds light on how class and gender affected everyday life.
Author: Nicholas Rogers
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-01-08
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 0300189060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter the end of the War of Austrian Succession in 1748, thousands of unemployed and sometimes unemployable soldiers and seamen found themselves on the streets of London ready to roister the town and steal when necessary. In this fascinating book Nicholas Rogers explores the moral panic associated with this rapid demobilization. Through interlocking stories of duels, highway robberies, smuggling, riots, binge drinking, and even two earthquakes, Rogers captures the anxieties of a half-decade and assesses the social reforms contemporaries framed and imagined to deal with the crisis. He argues that in addressing these events, contemporaries not only endorsed the traditional sanction of public executions, but wrestled with the problem of expanding the parameters of government to include practices and institutions we now regard as commonplace: censuses, the regularization of marriage through uniform methods of registration, penitentiaries and police forces.
