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State Trials, Volume II: The Public Conscience: Routledge Revivals

Editat de Donald Thomas
en Limba Engleză Hardback – noi 2024
State Trials, Volume II (first published in 1972) contains cases concerned with witchcraft, the scandals of the prisons, and colonial administration gathered from the full edition of State Trials completed in 1826. The author has selected some of the most interesting and important trials for this volume.
The book includes a general introduction, explaining the significance of State Trials as a whole. Each selected case is then introduced by a short essay, which explains the events surrounding the trial and its importance in relation to legal history. 
State Trials will always be one of the most vivid and fascinating accounts of English life in all documentary literature. Tales of murder, treason, bigamy, adultery, political conspiracy, the scandals of the prison system, and the brutality of imperial conquest are told through the words of the great and the humble. Murderers, pornographers, conquerors, and heroes, all come alive in their own words. This book will be a fascinating read for students and researchers of law and history, and general readers interested in the topic.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032861715
ISBN-10: 1032861711
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.65 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Revivals

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

General, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Cuprins

Introduction  1. A Trial of Witches at Bury St Edmunds (1665) with an account of the Salem Witch Trials (1692)   2. The Trial of John Huggins, Warden of the Fleet Prison, for the murder of Edward Arne (1729)  3. The Trail of Thomas Picton, sometime Governor of Trinidad, for causing the torture to be inflicted upon Luisa Calderon (1806)

Notă biografică

Donald Thomas was an academic historian of crime. He was the author of several studies of the criminal underworld as well as biographies of Robert Browning, the Marquis de Sade, Henry Fielding, and Lewis Carroll. 

Descriere

State Trials, Volume II (first published in 1972) contains cases concerned with witchcraft, the scandals of the prisons, and colonial administration gathered from the full edition of State Trials completed in 1826. The author has selected some of the most interesting and important trials for this volume.