Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth Century Britain 1138942677, 9781138942677

Victorians Against the Gallows: Capital Punishment and the Abolitionist Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain 9780755698493, 9781848856943

By the time that Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, the list of crimes liable to attract the death penalty had

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Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Paris 9780691198118, 069119811X

Prostitution was a serious problem for nineteenth-century Europe: a threat to public health and public order and, at the

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Lord and Peasant in Nineteenth Century Britain 9781317221975

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Government and the Railways in Nineteenth-Century Britain 9781487580186

Railways presented nineteenth century governments with political as well as economic problems. The book traces governmen

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Invalidism and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain 9780226261225

Nineteenth-century Britain did not invent chronic illness, but its social climate allowed hundreds of men and women, fro

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Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Constructing Scientific Communities 9780226683461

Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain.

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Crime, Punishment, and Policing in China 9780742575592, 9780742535756

Crime long has been a silent partner in China's march to modernization, leading the regime to make law and order as

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Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1660–1914 9781474296120, 9781441117656

Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1660-1914 offers an overview of the changing nature of crime and its punishme

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Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony 9780822375890, 0822375893

Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil

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Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a Nineteenth-Century City 9780804765534

When in 1808 members of the Portuguese royal entourage arrived in Rio de Janeiro, the capital of a colony most had previ

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