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  • Historical Criminology

    Series series Key Ideas in Criminology
    This book sets an agenda for the development of historical approaches to criminology. It defines ‘historical criminology’, explores its characteristic strengths and limitations, and considers its potential to enhance, revise and fundamentally challenge dominant modes of thinking about crime and social responses to crime.It considers the following questions:What is historical criminology? What does ... Read more

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  • The Police and the Expansion of Public Order Law in Britain, 1829-2014

    by Iain Channing ...
    Series series Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
    Incidences of public disorder, and the manner in which they have been suppressed, have repeatedly ignited debate on the role of policing, the effectiveness of current legislation and the implications for human rights and civil liberties. These same issues have reverberated throughout British history, and have frequently resulted in the enactment of new legislation that reactively aimed to counter ... Read more

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  • Leading the Police

    A History of Chief Constables 1835–2017

    Series series Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
    In 2015 the College of Policing published its Leadership Review with specific reference to the type of leadership required to ensure that the next generation of Chief Constables and their management approach will be fit for purpose. Three key issues were highlighted as underpinning the effective leadership and management of contemporary policing: hierarchy, culture and consistency. Yet these are ... Read more

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    Early Industrial Capitalism in Three English Towns

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    Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution represents both a continuation of, and a stark contrast to, the impressive tradition of social history which has grown up in Britain in the last two decades. Its use of sophisticated quantitative techniques for the dissection of urban social structures will serve as a model for subsequent research workers. This work examines the impact of ... Read more

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  • A People Under Siege

    The Unionists of Northern Ireland, from Partition to Brexit and Beyond

    by Aaron Edwards ...
    Since the Brexit referendum of 2016, extraordinary uncertainty has hung over the future of the Union between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, creating a crisis for the unionist community. A referendum that began on the question of sovereignty quickly degenerated into cries of betrayal over a redrawn border in the Irish Sea, and has led to unionists becoming more insular again, resurrecting ... Read more

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  • Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth Century Britain

    Edited by Victor Bailey ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The History of Crime and Punishment
    In the years between 1750 and 1868, English criminal justice underwent significant changes. The two most crucial developments were the gradual establishment of an organised, regular police, and the emergence of new secondary punishments, following the restriction in the scope of the death penalty. In place of an ill-paid parish constabulary, functioning largely through a system of rewards and ... Read more

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  • Protest and the politics of space and place, 1789–1848

    This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers’ rights in northern England. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. The book offers historical parallels for contemporary debates about protests in public space and democracy and anti-globalisation movements. In response to fears of revolution from ... Read more

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  • Rethinking right-wing women

    Gender and the Conservative Party, 1880s to the present

    Series Book 1 - New Perspectives on the Right
    Rethinking Right-Wing Women explores the institutional structures for and the representations, mobilisation, and the political careers of women in the British Conservative Party since the late 19th century. From the Primrose League (est.1883) to Women2Win (est.2005), the party has exploited women’s political commitment and their social power from the grass-roots to the heights of the establishment ... Read more

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  • Crime and Society in England, 1750–1900

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    Series series Themes In British Social History
    Ranging from the middle of the eighteenth through to the end of the nineteenth century, Crime and Society in England, 1750–1900 explores the developments in policing, the courts and the penal system as England became increasingly industrialised and urbanised. Through a consideration of the difficulty of defining crime, the book presents criminal behaviour as being intrinsically tied to historical ... Read more

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  • Everyday Violence in the Irish Civil War

    by Gemma Clark ...
    Everyday Violence in the Irish Civil War presents an innovative study of violence perpetrated by and against non-combatants during the Irish Civil War, 1922–3. Drawing from victim accounts of wartime injury as recorded in compensation claims, Dr Gemma Clark sheds new light on hundreds of previously neglected episodes of violence and intimidation - ranging from arson, boycott and animal maiming to ... Read more

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  • Anthropology

    A Student's Guide to Theory and Method

    Stanley R. Barrett's Anthropology has long been a premiere sourcebook for students, providing a comprehensive overview of both theory and method in the discipline. In this updated second edition, Barrett's discussion of the origins and evolution of anthropology remains, augmented by sections addressing recent changes and ongoing questions in the field.The second edition of Anthropology adds ... Read more

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  • The Palace Letters

    The Queen, the governor-general, and the plot to dismiss Gough Whitlam

    A political betrayal.A constitutional crisis.A hidden correspondence.Gough Whitlam was a progressive prime minister whose reign from 1972 proved tumultuous after 23 years of conservative government in Australia. After a second election victory in May 1974, when a hostile Senate refused to vote on his 1975 budget, the political deadlock that ensued culminated in Whitlam’s unexpected and deeply ... Read more

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