Defining a British State
Defining a British State

Author: L. Steffen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-05-04

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0230513751

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Explores the formation of the British state and national identity from 1603-1820 by examining the definitions of sovereignty and allegiance presented in treason trials. The king's person remained central to national identity and the state until republican challenges forced prosecutors in treason trials to innovate and redefine sovereign authority.

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Chesterfield
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Chesterfield

Author: Geoffrey Sadler

Publisher: Wharncliffe

Published: 2013-04-01

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1473828686

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Maiming, brutal murders, crimes of passion, suicides and executions; Chesterfield has all these and more in 'Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Chesterfield'.The scenic landscape of Chesterfield presents a pleasant face to it's visitors, but a study of it's past shows that it has often been a dangerous place to live. Exploring a catalogue of crimes, some of which are little known while others still claim media attention today. 'Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Chesterfield' has a blood stained thread of crime that is followed from the 'Parish Church Murders of 1422' through later centuries to such crimes as 'A Scandalous Assault 1875' and 'You have Kicked me to Death 1882'. What unfolds is a dark chronology of the criminal past of Chesterfield.Take a journey into the darker side of your area as you read 'Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Chesterfield'

A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University
A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University

Author: Julius J. Marke

Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 1418

ISBN-13: 1886363919

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Marke, Julius J., Editor. A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University With Selected Annotations. New York: The Law Center of New York University, 1953. xxxi, 1372 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-19939. ISBN 1-886363-91-9. Cloth. $195. * Reprint of the massive, well-annotated catalogue compiled by the librarian of the School of Law at New York University. Classifies approximately 15,000 works excluding foreign law, by Sources of the Law, History of Law and its Institutions, Public and Private Law, Comparative Law, Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, Political and Economic Theory, Trials, Biography, Law and Literature, Periodicals and Serials and Reference Material. With a thorough subject and author index. This reference volume will be of continuous value to the legal scholar and bibliographer, due not only to the works included but to the authoritative annotations, often citing more than one source. Besterman, A World Bibliography of Bibliographies 3461.