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  • The Routledge Handbook of Jack the Ripper Studies

    Edición de Anne-Marie Kilday, David Nash, Katherine D. Watson ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    In offering a holistic analysis of the vast array of evidence and literature pertaining to the Whitechapel Murders committed in London’s East End in the Autumn of 1888, this volume offers a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional consideration of the entirety of the most infamous of crimes and their legacy for the first time.Interest in the crimes of Jack the Ripper has barely dissipated over the ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Acid Attacks in Britain, 1760–1975

    de Katherine D. Watson ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This Palgrave Pivotexamines the history of the largely urban offence once known as vitriol throwing because the substance most commonly used was strong sulphuric acid, oil of vitriol. A relatively rare form of assault, it was motivated largely by revenge or jealousy and, because it was specifically designed to blind and mutilate, commonly targeted the victim’s face. The incidence of what was thus ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Forensic Medicine in Western Society

    A History

    de Katherine D. Watson ...
    The first book of its kind, Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History draws on the most recent developments in the historiography, to provide an overview of the history of forensic medicine in the West from the medieval period to the present day. Taking an international, comparative perspective on the changing nature of the relationship between medicine, law and society, it examines the ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

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  • The Ascent of the Detective

    Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England

    de Haia Shpayer-Makov ...
    The figure of the detective has long excited the imagination of the wider public, and the English police detective has been a special focus of attention in both print and visual media. Yet, while much has been written in the last three decades about the history of uniformed policemen in England, no similar work has focused on police detectives. The Ascent of the Detective redresses this by ... Leer más

    $56.69 USD

  • A Matter of Obscenity

    The Politics of Censorship in Modern England

    de Christopher Hilliard ...
    A comprehensive history of censorship in modern BritainFor Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate and enfranchised working classes. The law stayed this way even as society evolved. In 1960, in the ... Leer más

    $31.69 USD

  • Liberty's Dawn

    A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

    de Emma Griffin ...
    "Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • City of Dreadful Delight

    Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London

    de Judith R. Walkowitz ...
    Series series Women in Culture and Society
    From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal the complex dramas of power, politics, and sexuality that were being played out in late nineteenth-century Britain, and how they influenced the ... Leer más

    $26.69 USD

  • The Palace Letters

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

    de Professor Jenny Hocking ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

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  • Jack the Ripper & the London Press

    de L. Perry Curtis ...
    "Breaks new ground in its examination of the role of newspaper reporting during the police hunt for the first notorious serial killer."— Reviews in HistoryPress coverage of the 1888 mutilation murders attributed to Jack the Ripper was of necessity filled with gaps and silences, for the killer remained unknown and Victorian journalists had little experience reporting serial murders and sex crimes. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The UK Law on Self-Defence

    de Tom Hill ...
    This fantastic ebook by self-defence expert Tom Hill attempts to interpret the UK Law on self defence. What legal options are presented to an individual who fears for their own safety? What is reasonable force? Can you use a weapon? All these subjects and more are discussed in this revealing and informative guide. ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Telling True Stories

    Navigating the challenges of writing narrative non-fiction

    de Matthew Ricketson ...
    '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 ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction

    Edición de Martin Priestman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD