Capital punishment for murder was abolished in Britain in 1965. At this time, the way people in Britain perceived and understood the death penalty had changed - it was an issue that had become increasingly controversial, high-profile and fraught with emotion. In order to understand why this was, it is necessary to examine how ordinary people learned about and experienced capital punishment.
Drawing on primary research, this book explores the cultural life of the death penalty in Britain in the twentieth century, including an exploration of the role of the popular press and a discussion of portrayals of the death penalty in plays, novels and films. Popular protest against capital punishment and public responses to and understandings of capital cases are also discussed, particularly in relation to conceptualisations of justice. Miscarriages of justice were significant to capital punishment's increasingly fraught nature in the mid twentieth-century and the book analyses the unsettling power of two such high profile miscarriages of justice. The final chapters consider the continuing relevance of capital punishment in Britain after abolition, including its symbolism and how people negotiate memories of the death penalty.
Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain is groundbreaking in its attention to the death penalty and the effect it had on everyday life and it is the only text on this era to place public and popular discourses about, and reactions to, capital punishment at the centre of the analysis. Interdisciplinary in focus and methodology, it will appeal to historians, criminologists, sociologists and socio-legal scholars.
Название: An Environmental History of Twentieth-Century Britain ISBN: 0333949811 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333949818 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 5868.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This text provides an introduction to the policy making designed to protect and enhance the rural and urban environments of 20th-century Britain. Sheail illustrates how some of the most pressing concerns came to be recognized, and a response made, by reviewing the policy making process.
Название: Twentieth-Century Britain: A Political History ISBN: 0333772245 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333772249 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 5868.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This comprehensive study describes the major political events of the 20th century in Britain. It presents the history, key personnel, problems and achievements of Britain`s administrators, from Lord Salisbury`s government in 1900 to Tony Blair`s "Cool Britannia".
Автор: Sterenberg Matthew Название: Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain ISBN: 1137354968 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137354969 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A variety of thinkers used the concept of myth to articulate their anxieties about modernity. By telling the story of mythic thinking in Britain from its origins in Victorian social anthropology to its postwar cultural mainstreaming, this book reveals a yearning for transcendence in an age long assumed to be disenchanted.
Автор: Preston Carrie J Название: Modernism`s Mythic Pose ISBN: 0199384584 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199384587 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4275.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book recovers the tradition of Delsartism, a popular international movement that promoted bodily and vocal solo performances, particularly for women. This strain of classical-antimodernism shaped dance, film, and poetics. Its central figure, the mythic pose, expressed both skepticism and nostalgia and functioned as an ambivalent break from modernity.
Автор: Coopey, Richard; Lyth, Peter Название: Business in Britain in the Twentieth Century ISBN: 0199226008 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199226009 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 16236.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection of fresh, incisive scholarship, by some of the leading business historians, critically examines the nature of economic recovery in Britain in recent years. Covering the key issues for business history in this period, this overview confronts the traditional literature`s conclusions and simplistic explanations.
Автор: Jodi Burkett Название: Students in Twentieth-Century Britain and Ireland ISBN: 3319582402 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319582405 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: It takes students themselves as the subject of inquiry, exploring the fundamental importance of student activities within wider social and political changes and also how some of the key changes across the twentieth century have shaped and changed the make-up, experiences, and lives of students.
Автор: Patrick T. Merricks Название: Religion and Racial Progress in Twentieth-Century Britain ISBN: 3319539876 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319539874 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11878.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: As a testament to the popularity of the movement, mid-twentieth century British eugenics is contextualized within a remarkably diverse selection of discourses including secular and Anglican interpretations of modernism, poverty, population, gender equality, pacifism and racism.
Описание: Charting the growing religious pluralism of British society, this book investigates the diverse formations of masculinity within and across specific religions, regions and immigrant communities. Contributors look beyond conventional realms of worship to examine men`s diverse religious cultures in a variety of contexts.
Автор: W. Morgan; S. Livingstone Название: Law and Opinion in Twentieth-Century Britain and Ireland ISBN: 1349420824 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349420827 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9083.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Law and Opinion in Twentieth Century Britain and Ireland covers four main themes: Law and the State; The book provides a substantial and readable analysis of the relationship between law and opinion in Britain and Ireland, with a special focus on the question of culture, identity and the state.
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