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  • The Last Outlaws

    The crimes of Jimmy & Joe Governor and the birth of modern Australia

    Brilliantly reconstructed from contemporary narratives, The Last Outlaws is both a gripping work of historical true crime and a richly revealing examination of our nation at its birth. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith meets Killing for Country.In the winter of 1900, Wiradjuri man Jimmy Governor and his brother Joe murdered nine people across New South Wales, in a rampage that caused panic in the ... Read more

    $13.43 USD

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    The Last Outlaws

    The crimes of Jimmy & Joe Governor and the birth of modern Australia

    Narrated by Leroy Parsons ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 56 min

    Brilliantly reconstructed from contemporary narratives, The Last Outlaws is both a gripping work of historical true crime and a richly revealing examination of our nation at its birth. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith meets Killing for Country.In the winter of 1900, Wiradjuri man Jimmy Governor and his brother Joe murdered nine people across New South Wales, in a rampage that caused panic in the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • In Crime's Archive

    The Cultural Afterlife of Evidence

    This book investigates what happens to criminal evidence after the conclusion of legal proceedings. During the criminal trial, evidentiary material is tightly regulated; it is formally regarded as part of the court record, and subject to the rules of evidence and criminal procedure. However, these rules and procedures cannot govern or control this material after proceedings have ended. In its ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Captive Images

    Race, Crime, Photography

    Captive Images examines the law’s treatment of photographic evidence and uses it to investigate the relationship between law, image and fantasy. Based around the scholarly examination of a bank robbery, in which a surveillance camera captures the robbery in progress, Katherine Biber draws upon critical writing from psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, art, law, literature and feminism to 'read' this ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Law's Documents

    Authority, Materiality, Aesthetics

    Illuminating their breadth and diversity, this book presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of legal documents and their manifold forms, uses, materialities and meanings. In 1951, Suzanne Briet, a librarian at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, famously said that an antelope in a zoo could be a document, thereby radically changing the way documents were analysed and understood. In ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Evidence and the Archive

    Ethics, Aesthetics and Emotion

    Edited by Katherine Biber, Trish Luker ...
    This collection explores the stakes, risks and opportunities invoked in opening and exploring law’s archive and re-examining law’s evidence. It draws together work exploring how evidence is used or mis-used during the legal process, and re-used after the law’s work has concluded by engaging with ethical, aesthetic or emotional dimensions of using law’s evidence. Within socio-legal discourse, the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • The Voice of the Past

    Oral History

    by Paul Thompson ...
    Series series Oxford Oral History Series
    Oral history gives history back to the people in their own words. And in giving a past, it also helps them towards a future of their own making. Oral history and life stories help to create a truer picture of the past and the changing present, documenting the lives and feelings of all kinds of people, many otherwise hidden from history. It explores personal and family relationships and uncovers ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • Consuming History

    Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture

    Consuming History examines how history works in contemporary popular culture. Analysing a wide range of cultural entities from computer games to daytime television, it investigates the ways in which society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation.In this second edition, Jerome de Groot probes how museums have ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Critical Live Art

    Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

    Edited by Dominic Johnson ...
    Live Art is a contested category, not least because of the historical, disciplinary and institutional ambiguities that the term often tends to conceal. Live Art can be usefully defined as a peculiarly British variation on particular legacies of cultural experimentation – a historically and culturally contingent translation of categories including body art, performance art, time-based art, and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Children’s Voices from the Past

    New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores a central methodological issue at the heart of studies of the histories of children and childhood. It questions how we understand the perspectives of children in the past, and not just those of the adults who often defined and constrained the parameters of youthful lives. Drawing on a range of different sources, including institutional records, interviews, artwork, diaries, ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Voice of the Past

    Oral History

    by Paul Thompson ...
    In this revised edition of Paul Thompson's successful book, he traces oral history through its own past and weighs up the recent achievements of this international movement. He challenges myths of historical scholarship and looks at the use of oral sources by the historian. The author offers advice on designing a project; discusses reliability of oral evidence; considers the context of the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Telling True Stories

    Navigating the challenges of writing narrative non-fiction

    'In this excellent and provocative book, Matthew Ricketson lays bare the challenges of modern storytelling. I have found myself thinking about it every day, long after I put it down.' - William Powers, author of Hamlet's BlackBerry'An essential guide for the true storyteller.' - Chloe Hooper, award-winning author of fiction and non-fictionIt's etched into our neurological pathways; we can't live ... Read more

    $15.99 USD