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Found 4 from your keywords: subject="British History"
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The Making of an Imperial Polity : Civility and America in the Jacobean Metro…
Working, Lauren,

Bringing to life the interaction between America, its peoples, and metropolitan gentlemen in early seventeenth-century England, this book argues that colonization did not just operate on the peripheries of the political realm, and confronts the entangled histories of colonialism and domestic status and governance. The Jacobean era is reframed as a definitive moment in which the civil self-prese…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781108625227
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xiv, 270 p ; ill
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Call Number
970.02 MAK L
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Disorder Contained : Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ir…
Cox, CatherineMarland, Hilary

Disorder Contained is the first historical account of the complex relationship between prison discipline and mental breakdown in England and Ireland. Between 1840 and 1900 the expansion of the modern prison system coincided with increased rates of mental disorder among prisoners, exacerbated by the introduction of regimes of isolation, deprivation and hard labour. Drawing on a range of archival…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781108993586
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ix, 318 p ; ill
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Call Number
365.608740941 DIS C
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Vermin, Victims and Disease : British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Ba…
Cassidy, Angela

This open access book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle. This question has plagued several professional generations of politicians, policymakers, experts and campaigners since the early 1970s. Questions of what is known, who knows, who cares, who to trust and what to do ab…

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ISBN/ISSN
9783030191863
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xiv, 366 p.
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636.208945420941 VER A
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Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
Tarlow, SarahBattell Lowman, Emma

This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture.…

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ISBN/ISSN
9783319779089
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x, 273 p.
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Call Number
941