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    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      October 2017

      Britain and its internal others, 1750–1800

      Under rule of law

      by Dana Rabin, Andrew Thompson

      The rule of law, an ideology of equality and universality that justified Britain's eighteenth-century imperial claims, was the product not of abstract principles but imperial contact. As the Empire expanded, encompassing greater religious, ethnic and racial diversity, the law paradoxically contained and maintained these very differences. This book revisits six notorious incidents that occasioned vigorous debate in London's courtrooms, streets and presses: the Jewish Naturalization Act and the Elizabeth Canning case (1753-54); the Somerset Case (1771-72); the Gordon Riots (1780); the mutinies of 1797; and Union with Ireland (1800). Each of these cases adjudicated the presence of outsiders in London - from Jews and Gypsies to Africans and Catholics. The demands of these internal others to equality before the law drew them into the legal system, challenging longstanding notions of English identity and exposing contradictions in the rule of law.

    • Trusted Partner
      Business, Economics & Law
      May 2019

      Women before the court

      Law and patriarchy in the Anglo-American world, 1600–1800

      by Lindsay R. Moore, Pamela Sharpe

      This book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women's legal rights during a formative period of Anglo-American history. It traces how colonists transplanted English legal institutions to America, examines the remarkable depth of women's legal knowledge and shows how the law increasingly undermined patriarchal relationships between parents and children, masters and servants, husbands and wives. The book will be of interest to scholars of Britain and colonial America, and to laypeople interested in how women in the past navigated and negotiated the structures of authority that governed them. It is packed with fascinating stories that women related to the courts in cases ranging from murder and abuse to debt and estate litigation. Ultimately, it makes a remarkable contribution to our understandings of law, power and gender in the early modern world.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      November 2018

      Justice and mercy

      Moral theology and the exercise of law in twelfth-century England

      by Philippa Byrne, T. J. H. McCarthy, Carrie Beneš, Stephen Mossman, Jochen Schenk

      This book examines one of the most fundamental issues in twelfth-century English politics: justice. It demonstrates that during the foundational period for the common law, the question of judgement and judicial ethics was a topic of heated debate - a common problem with multiple different answers. How to be a judge, and how to judge well, was a concern shared by humble and high, keeping both kings and parish priests awake at night. Using theological texts, sermons, legal treatises and letter collections, the book explores how moralists attempted to provide guidance for uncertain judges. It argues that mercy was always the most difficult challenge for a judge, fitting uncomfortably within the law and of disputed value. Shining a new light on English legal history, Justice and mercy reveals the moral dilemmas created by the establishment of the common law.

    • Trusted Partner
      Business, Economics & Law
      May 2019

      Madness on trial

      A transatlantic history of English civil law and lunacy

      by James Moran, Keir Waddington

      This book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness in England and in New Jersey. The influence of civil law on the history of madness has not hitherto been of major academic investigation. This body of law, established and developed over a five hundred year period, greatly influenced how those from England's propertied classes understood and responded to madness. Moreover, the civil law governing the response to madness in England was successfully exported into several of its colonies, including New Jersey. Drawing on a well-preserved and rare collection of trials in lunacy in New Jersey, this book reveals the important ties of civil law, local custom and perceptions of madness in transatlantic perspective. This book will be highly relevant to scholars interested in law, medicine, psychiatry, madness studies, as well as contemporary issues in mental capacity and guardianship.

    • Trusted Partner
      Business, Economics & Law
      May 2019

      Madness on trial

      A transatlantic history of English civil law and lunacy

      by James Moran, Keir Waddington

    • Trusted Partner
      Business, Economics & Law
      May 2019

      Madness on trial

      A transatlantic history of English civil law and lunacy

      by James Moran, Keir Waddington

    • Trusted Partner
      Business, Economics & Law
      May 2019

      Women before the court

      Law and patriarchy in the Anglo-American world, 1600–1800

      by Lindsay R. Moore, Pamela Sharpe

      This book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women's legal rights during a formative period of Anglo-American history. It traces how colonists transplanted English legal institutions to America, examines the remarkable depth of women's legal knowledge and shows how the law increasingly undermined patriarchal relationships between parents and children, masters and servants, husbands and wives. The book will be of interest to scholars of Britain and colonial America, and to laypeople interested in how women in the past navigated and negotiated the structures of authority that governed them. It is packed with fascinating stories that women related to the courts in cases ranging from murder and abuse to debt and estate litigation. Ultimately, it makes a remarkable contribution to our understandings of law, power and gender in the early modern world.

    • Trusted Partner
      Business, Economics & Law
      May 2019

      Women before the court

      Law and patriarchy in the Anglo-American world, 1600–1800

      by Lindsay R. Moore, Pamela Sharpe

      This book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women's legal rights during a formative period of Anglo-American history. It traces how colonists transplanted English legal institutions to America, examines the remarkable depth of women's legal knowledge and shows how the law increasingly undermined patriarchal relationships between parents and children, masters and servants, husbands and wives. The book will be of interest to scholars of Britain and colonial America, and to laypeople interested in how women in the past navigated and negotiated the structures of authority that governed them. It is packed with fascinating stories that women related to the courts in cases ranging from murder and abuse to debt and estate litigation. Ultimately, it makes a remarkable contribution to our understandings of law, power and gender in the early modern world.

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    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      November 2018

      Justice and mercy

      Moral theology and the exercise of law in twelfth-century England

      by Philippa Byrne, T. J. H. McCarthy, Carrie Beneš, Stephen Mossman, Jochen Schenk

      This book examines one of the most fundamental issues in twelfth-century English politics: justice. It demonstrates that during the foundational period for the common law, the question of judgement and judicial ethics was a topic of heated debate - a common problem with multiple different answers. How to be a judge, and how to judge well, was a concern shared by humble and high, keeping both kings and parish priests awake at night. Using theological texts, sermons, legal treatises and letter collections, the book explores how moralists attempted to provide guidance for uncertain judges. It argues that mercy was always the most difficult challenge for a judge, fitting uncomfortably within the law and of disputed value. Shining a new light on English legal history, Justice and mercy reveals the moral dilemmas created by the establishment of the common law.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      November 2018

      Justice and mercy

      Moral theology and the exercise of law in twelfth-century England

      by Philippa Byrne, T. J. H. McCarthy, Carrie Beneš, Stephen Mossman, Jochen Schenk

      This book examines one of the most fundamental issues in twelfth-century English politics: justice. It demonstrates that during the foundational period for the common law, the question of judgement and judicial ethics was a topic of heated debate - a common problem with multiple different answers. How to be a judge, and how to judge well, was a concern shared by humble and high, keeping both kings and parish priests awake at night. Using theological texts, sermons, legal treatises and letter collections, the book explores how moralists attempted to provide guidance for uncertain judges. It argues that mercy was always the most difficult challenge for a judge, fitting uncomfortably within the law and of disputed value. Shining a new light on English legal history, Justice and mercy reveals the moral dilemmas created by the establishment of the common law.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      November 2018

      Men on trial

      Performing emotion, embodiment and identity in Ireland, 1800–45

      by Katie Barclay, Lynn Abrams

      Men on trial explores how the Irish perform 'the self' within the early nineteenth-century courtroom and its implications for law, society and nation. Drawing on new methodologies from the history of emotion, as well as theories of performativity and performative space, it emphasises that manliness was not simply a cultural ideal, but something practised, felt and embodied. Men on trial explores how gender could be a creative dynamic in productions of power. Targeted at scholars in Irish history, law and gender studies, this book argues that justice was not simply determined through weighing evidence, but through weighing men, their bodies, behaviours, and emotions. Moreover, in a context where the processes of justice were publicised in the press for the nation and the world, manliness and its role in the creation of justice became implicated in the making of national identity.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      November 2018

      Men on trial

      Performing emotion, embodiment and identity in Ireland, 1800–45

      by Katie Barclay, Lynn Abrams

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      November 2018

      Men on trial

      Performing emotion, embodiment and identity in Ireland, 1800–45

      by Katie Barclay, Lynn Abrams

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      October 2019

      Lawyers for the poor

      Legal advice, voluntary action and citizenship in England, 1890–1990

      by Katharine Bradley

      From the 1890s onwards, social reformers, volunteer lawyers, and politicians increasingly came to see access to affordable or free legal advice as a critical part of helping working-class people uphold their rights with landlords, employers, and retailers - and, from the 1940s, with the welfare state. Whilst a state scheme was launched in 1949, it was never fully implemented and help from a lawyer remained out of the reach of many people. Lawyers for the poor is the first full-length study of the development of voluntary action and mutual schemes to make the law more accessible, and the pressure put on the legal profession and governments to bring in further reforms. It offers new insights of the role of access to the law in shaping ideas about citizenship and civil rights in the twentieth century.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      October 2019

      Lawyers for the poor

      Legal advice, voluntary action and citizenship in England, 1890–1990

      by Katharine Bradley

      From the 1890s onwards, social reformers, volunteer lawyers, and politicians increasingly came to see access to affordable or free legal advice as a critical part of helping working-class people uphold their rights with landlords, employers, and retailers - and, from the 1940s, with the welfare state. Whilst a state scheme was launched in 1949, it was never fully implemented and help from a lawyer remained out of the reach of many people. Lawyers for the poor is the first full-length study of the development of voluntary action and mutual schemes to make the law more accessible, and the pressure put on the legal profession and governments to bring in further reforms. It offers new insights of the role of access to the law in shaping ideas about citizenship and civil rights in the twentieth century.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      April 2020

      Freedom of speech, 1500–1850

      by Robert Ingram, Jason Peacey, Alex W. Barber, Alastair Bellany, Peter Lake

      This collection brings together historians, political theorists and literary scholars to provide historical perspectives on the modern debate over freedom of speech, particularly the question of whether limitations might be necessary given religious pluralism and concerns about hate speech. It integrates religion into the history of free speech and rethinks what is sometimes regarded as a coherent tradition of more or less absolutist justifications for free expression. Contributors examine the aims and effectiveness of government policies, the sometimes contingent ways in which freedom of speech became a reality and a wide range of canonical and non-canonical texts in which contemporaries outlined their ideas and ideals. Overall, the book argues that while the period from 1500 to 1850 witnessed considerable change in terms of both ideas and practices, these were more or less distinct from those that characterise modern debates.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      April 2020

      Freedom of speech, 1500–1850

      by Robert Ingram, Jason Peacey, Alex W. Barber, Alastair Bellany, Peter Lake

      This collection brings together historians, political theorists and literary scholars to provide historical perspectives on the modern debate over freedom of speech, particularly the question of whether limitations might be necessary given religious pluralism and concerns about hate speech. It integrates religion into the history of free speech and rethinks what is sometimes regarded as a coherent tradition of more or less absolutist justifications for free expression. Contributors examine the aims and effectiveness of government policies, the sometimes contingent ways in which freedom of speech became a reality and a wide range of canonical and non-canonical texts in which contemporaries outlined their ideas and ideals. Overall, the book argues that while the period from 1500 to 1850 witnessed considerable change in terms of both ideas and practices, these were more or less distinct from those that characterise modern debates.

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