Legal History 25

These essays, first published in 1996, focus on class, race, and gender as organising and analytical concepts in criminology. For many years, their importance in studying how the world relates to cr……続きを見る

First published in 1981. In the last few decades, interest in the study of crimes by women has increased. This interest has coincided with the accelerated momentum of the feminist movement and has l……続きを見る

Female Crime, first published in 1987, surveys the major schools of criminology in order to explore the images of the female offender which underpin many contemporary crime theories. In reveals the ……続きを見る

This book, first published in 1984, is a selective, annotated bibliography on women and deviance that includes historical, cross cultural, sociological, psychological, political, legal, philosophica……続きを見る

A fearless defender of the last Christian Anglo-Saxon kingdom left standing, after all other kingdoms were brutally conquered by the pagan Viking Danes, King Alfred the Great (841-899 AD) was a cour……続きを見る

The Danish medieval laws: the laws of Scania, Zealand and Jutland contains translations of the four most important medieval Danish laws written in the vernacular. The main texts are those of the Law……続きを見る

In this volume of essays, scholars of the interdisciplinary field of law and literature write about the role of emotion in English law and legal theory in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth ce……続きを見る

In this book, Bonnie Lander Johnson explores early modern ideas of chastity, demonstrating how crucial early Stuart thinking on chastity was to political, medical, theological and moral debates, and……続きを見る

Harvard Law School is the oldest and, arguably, the most influential law school in the nation. U.S. presidents, Supreme Court justices, and foreign heads of state, along with senators, congressional……続きを見る

In 1950s America, it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any reason. The criminal justice system-and especially the age-old law of vagrancy-served not only to maintain ……続きを見る

In postrevolutionary America, the autonomous individual was both the linchpin of a young nation and a threat to the founders’ vision of ordered liberty. Conceiving of self-government as a psychologi……続きを見る

In this lively social history, first published in 1988, Lionel Rose explores in detail the plight of the street poor between 1815 and 1985. He describes the Victorian ‘Rogues and Vagabonds’ who made……続きを見る

Hans-Jochen Vogel, der bekannte Politiker und Jurist, stellt in diesem Buch ein weiteres Mal kuriose Rechtsvorschriften aus dem königlichen Bayern vor, mit denen er bei der damaligen Bereinigung des……続きを見る

In this second installment of G. Edward White's sweeping history of law in America from the colonial era to the present, White, covers the period between 1865-1929, which encompasses Reconstruction,……続きを見る

Across eighteenth-century China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials or other agents of the state. This examination of case records and law codes tr……続きを見る

Verfassungen sind konstitutiv für die Etablierung und Aufrechterhaltung einer politischen Ordnung. Die Verfassung begründet die Grundstrukturen eines politischen Systems, legt fest, wer sich wie an ……続きを見る

Unsere Welt wächst zusammen und braucht mehr denn je internationale Regeln für militärische Konflikte sowie den Kampf gegen Terror und Menschenrechtsverletzungen. Angelika Nußberger schildert kenntn……続きを見る

Die „Geschichte des öffentlichen Rechts in Deutschland“ von Michael Stolleis gehört zu den herausragenden Gesamtdarstellungen unserer Zeit. Auf mehr als 2000 Druckseiten entfaltet ihr Autor darin we……続きを見る

Der renommierte Rechtshistoriker Michael Stolleis versammelt in diesem Buch kuriose Geschichten aus Recht und Literatur vom Spätmittelalter bis in die Gegenwart. Menschen geraten aneinander, geben i……続きを見る

«Was wir als Anfänge glauben nachweisen zu können, sind ohnehin schon ganz späte Stadien.» Dieses Diktum aus den «Weltgeschichtlichen Betrachtungen» Jacob Burckhardts gilt auch für die deutsche Verf……続きを見る

The three Abrahamic faiths have dominated religious conversations for millennia but the relations between state and religion are in a constant state of flux. This relationship may be configured in a……続きを見る

A ‘MAKING A MURDERER’ set in South Africa – a gripping true-crime story of murder and the justice system in the shadow of apartheid ‘Gripping, explosive . . . crafts a close sense of place that riva……続きを見る

Tracing the use of legal themes in the gothic novel, Bridget M. Marshall shows these devices reflect an outpouring of anxiety about the nature of justice. On both sides of the Atlantic, novelists li……続きを見る

In her study of anonymous infanticide news stories that appeared from 1822 to 1922 in the heart of the British Empire, in regional Leicester, and in the penal colony of Australia, Nicola Goc uses Cr……続きを見る

Exploring the relationship between gender and law in Europe from the nineteenth century to present, this collection examines the recent feminisation of justice, its historical beginnings and the imp……続きを見る

Cheryl Nixon's book is the first to connect the eighteenth-century fictional orphan and factual orphan, emphasizing the legal concepts of estate, blood, and body. Examining novels by authors such as……続きを見る

In eighteenth-century England, the law surrounding vagrancy was complicated, and practice stood in complex relationship to law. Drawing on extensive archival research and in-depth study of both stat……続きを見る

One of the great paradoxes of post-medieval Europe, is why instead of bringing peace to a disorganised and violent world, modernity instead produced a seemingly endless string of conflicts and socia……続きを見る

Nineteenth-century Britain witnessed a dramatic increase in its town population, as a hitherto largely rural economy transformed itself into an urban one. Though the political and social issues aris……続きを見る

A stunningly original history of higher education law. Conventional wisdom holds that American courts historically deferred to institutions of higher learning in most matters involving student condu……続きを見る