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This book examines how the law was made, defined, administered, and used in eighteenth-century England. A team of leading international historians explore the w

This is a collection of essays critically examining the historical development of the modern criminal law.

How was law made in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Through detailed studies of what the courts actually did, Peter King argues that p

Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents an

Spaces for Feeling explores how English and Scottish people experienced sociabilities and socialities from 1650 to 1850, and investigates their operation throug