The Procession to Tyburn
Author | : William McAdoo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Crime |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William McAdoo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Crime |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Cruikshank |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1839 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ken Leyton-Brown |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2010-04-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0774859326 |
It 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 | : Alfred Edward Newton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Book collecting |
ISBN | : |
Collection of papers by the famous American book collector on the delights of collecting.
Author | : David Brandon |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2011-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0752468200 |
Why 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 | : William Harrison Ainsworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Hostettler |
Publisher | : Waterside Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2009-01-12 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1906534799 |
"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 | : George Byron Gordon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : London |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Frances Timbers |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271091312 |
Mary 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 |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2013-01-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300189060 |
After 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.