Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 7, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780521573566
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; English legal system: courts & procedure; Gender studies; Social history; Women; Legal History; Female offenders; Social Science; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Sociology; England; Criminology; Law / Legal History; Ethnic Studies - General; Crime; Great Britain; History; Legal status, laws, etc
First sentence: In an important review essay of 1986, Joanna Innes and John Styles described the social history of crime and the criminal law as 'one of the most exciting and influential areas of research in eighteenth-century history'.
Notes: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History