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Exploring Sentencing Practice in England and Wales

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"How are offenders sentenced in England and Wales? This is the first volume to analyse the empirical and normative aspects of sentencing in the UK, exploring a range of important issues including the role of previous convictions, sentencing female offenders, offender remorse and…

The politics of provisions: food riots, moral economy, and market transition …

by Bohstedt, John

fromThe history of retailing and consumption

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The elemental power of food politics has not been fully appraised. Food marketing and consumption were matters of politics as much as economics as England became a market society. In times of dearth, concatenations of food riots, repression, and relief created a maturing polit…

Why was Charles I executed?

by Holmes, Clive

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The execution of Charles I in 1649, followed by the proclamation of a Commonwealth, was an extraordinary event in British history. Examining key issues surrounding the regicide, Clive Holmes looks at how a country descended into civil war.

Why was Charles I executed?

by Holmes, Clive

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The execution of Charles I in 1649, followed by the proclamation of a Commonwealth, was an extraordinary event in British history. Examining key issues surrounding the regicide, Clive Holmes looks at how a country descended into civil war.

The three Richards: Richard I, Richard II and Richard III

by Saul, Nigel

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The three Richards who ruled England in the Middle Ages were among the most controversial and celebrated of its rulers. This biography shows how much the three kings had in common, apart from their names.

Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England

by Almond, Philip C.

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This book examines life after death and changing concepts of heaven and hell in English thought from 1650 to 1750. It explores seventeenth- and eighteenth-century images of the journey of body and soul, from Platonist accounts of pre-existence, the final judgement and beyond int…

Not dead things: the dissemination of popular print in England and…

by Raymond, Joad, Harms, Roeland, Salman, Jeroen

fromLibrary of the written word

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This collection explores the surprising ways by which cheap print moved across Europe, focussing on Italy, the Netherlands and Britain. Looking at pedlars, commerce and communication, it presents a model of textual dissemination and the material and economic premises of European…

Not dead things: the dissemination of popular print in England and…

by Raymond, Joad, Harms, Roeland, Salman, Jeroen

fromLibrary of the written word

0 Type: Book

This collection explores the surprising ways by which cheap print moved across Europe, focussing on Italy, the Netherlands and Britain. Looking at pedlars, commerce and communication, it presents a model of textual dissemination and the material and economic premises of European…

The nonverbal shift in early modern English conversation

by Hübler, Axel

fromPragmatics & beyond

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"This is the first historical investigation on the nonverbal component of conversation. For the courtly society of 16th and 17th century England, it is argued that a drift appeared toward an increased use of prosodic means of expression at the expense of gestural means. Direct e…