Nicola Goc, a young Australian historian, has examined “news narratives” of infanticide trials in England and America in the century between the institution of a new legal severity towards unwed mothers and the legal “modernization” of infanticide law. There has been a good deal of attention in rece...
Law in the British Empire had many faces. It could prove useful to the British in helping to further colonial rule but could also be a resource with which the ‘colonised’ could openly criticise that rule. In An Empire on Trial, Martin Wiener reveals the British Empire to be ‘a deeply contested enter...
Whilst the study of Victorian masculinity has highlighted attempts to replace libertinism and pugilism with chivalric and heroic models, its significance for criminal justice history is only just beginning to be felt in published work. Historians of sexuality, such as Ed Cohen and Angus McClaren, ha...
Fabiani Jean-Louis. Martin J. Wiener, English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850-1980. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 42ᵉ année, N. 4, 1987. pp. 848-850.
