Law, Crime and English Society, 16601830
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 21, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780521642613
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Crime & criminology; Jurisprudence & General Issues; Social history; Legal History; History; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Law; England; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Law / Legal History; Great Britain; International; Crime; Criminal law
First sentence: This volume is a tribute to John Beattie, whose work is fundamental to the burgeoning study of crime and the courts in early modern England, and whose enthusiastic interest in the work of his fellow historians is one of the attractions of eighteenth-century English history.