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1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Popular violence and its prosecution in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France / Julius R. Ruff -- The containment of violence in Central European cities, 1500-1800 / Joachim Eibach -- Royal justice, popular culture and violence : homicide in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Castile / Rudy Chaulet -- Prosecution and public participation : the case of early modern Sweden / Maria Kaspersson -- Towards a legal anthropology of the early modern Isle of Man / James Sharpe -- "For fear of the vengeance" : the prosecution of homicide in pre-Famine and Famine Ireland / Richard McMahon -- Violent crime and the public weal in England, 1700-1900 / Greg T. Smith -- Atonement and domestic homicide in late Victorian Scotland / Carolyn A. Conley -- "A second Ireland"? Crime and popular culture in nineteenth-century Wales / Richard W. Ireland |
| Summary |
Exploring the relationship between crime, law and popular culture in Europe from the 16th century onwards, this title looks at how crime was understood and dealt with by ordinary people, as well as looking at to what degree official law and the criminal justice system was rejected as a means of dealing with criminal activity |
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"This collection of essays has its origins in a conference entitled 'Crime, law and popular culture in Europe since 1500' which was hosted by the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway"--Acknowledgements |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Crime -- Europe
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Crime -- Europe -- History
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Popular culture -- Europe -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Crime
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Popular culture
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Europe
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Electronic books
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
McMahon, Richard (Research fellow)
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| ISBN |
9781134007356 |
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1134007353 |
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9781843925651 |
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1843925656 |
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9786611845698 |
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6611845690 |
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9781134007424 |
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1134007426 |
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9781134007493 |
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1134007493 |
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