Men of Blood
Subtitle: Violence, Manliness, and Criminal Justice in Victorian England
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 3, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780521684163
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Crime & criminology; Gender studies; Violence in society; c 1800 to c 1900; Technology & Industrial Arts; History; History: World; England; Remote Sensing; Western Europe - General; History / Europe / Western
First sentence: In nineteenth-century England, the problem of violence, the meanings of gender, and the workings of law were all assuming more prominent places in culture and consciousness.