Throughout the fractious years of the mid-nineteenth century, Abraham Lincoln's speeches imparted reason and guidance to a troubled nation. Lincoln's words were never universally praised. But they resonated with fellow legislators and the public, especially when he spoke on such volatile subjects as mob rule, temperance, the Mexican War, slavery ...
Designed to complement "Crime and Punishment: An Introductory History" (UCL Press, 1996), this sourcebook contains documents specifically selected to illuminate major issues raised in the textbook. In the first part of the book, extracts of laws and royal, local and church records from Anglo-Saxon England to the 18th century reveal changing ...
This book significantly expands the coverage of this subject given by its predecessor "Biogeography and Plate Tectonics" (1987). "Global Biogeography" traces global changes in geography and biology from the Precambrian to the Recent (with worldwide coverage in chronological order); examines the evolutionary effects of the major extinctions, and ...
This survey of crime in England from the medieval period to the present day synthesizes case-study and local-level material and standardizes the debates and issues for the student reader.
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