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Tracing the history of female crime and execution from 1726 to 1955, Women and the Noose presents the cases of over fifty women who met their end on the hangman's gallows. From the criminal act to the execution day itself, the women's stories illustrate the range of crimes punishable by execution such as petty theft and murder, as well as reactions to the death sentence, including 'pleading the belly' as a defence. Richard Clark also discusses the developments in execution methods, from burning at the stake to the short-and long-drop; and the move from the very public hangings to the more dignified private events. Clark's frank treatment of the executions combined with sympathetic revelations about the women's private lives makes Women and the Noose a chilling and surprisingly moving read

This is the first book on the regimes of citizenship in the Italian colonies. It focuses on the construction of special forms of citizenship, racism, policies of repression/cooptation, and the answers of the local populations in terms of resistance, negotiation, and construction of social identity

Der erste Schwerpunkt der Historischen Mitteilungen befasst sich mit der Rolle der Regionen und Länder im Rahmen des Verfassungsgebungsprozesses der Weimarer Republik. Anhand einer Reihe von beispielhaften, mit ähnlichen thematischen Schwerpunktsetzungen konzipierten Studien zu den verfassungsrechtlichen Verhältnissen in deutschen Klein- und Mittelstaaten möchten die Autoren dazu beitragen, einen bislang nur unzureichend behandelten Aspekt bei der historischen Einordnung der Weimarer Verfassung zu beheben.Der zweite Schwerpunkt dieses Bandes rundet die Geschichte des Norddeutschen Bundes aus den beiden vorangegangenen Bänden ab und ist den Annexionen Preussens nach dem Ende des Deutschen Bundes und der Gründung des Norddeutschen Bundes gewidmet

Winner of the 2021 Bandelier/Lavrin Book Prize from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies2021 Ermine Wheeler-Voegelin Award Honorable Mention from the American Society for EthnohistoryIn Colonial Kinship: Guarani, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay, historian Shawn Michael Austin traces the history of conquest and colonization in Paraguay during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Emphasizing the social and cultural agency of Guarani--one of the primary indigenous peoples of Paraguay--not only in Jesuit missions but also in colonial settlements and Indian pueblos scattered in and around the Spanish city of Asuncion, Austin argues that interethnic relations and cultural change in Paraguay can only be properly understood through the Guarani logic of kinship. In the colonial backwater of Paraguay, conquistadors were forced to marry into Guarani families in order to acquire indigenous tributaries, thereby becoming "brothers-in-law" (tovaja) to Guarani chieftains. This pattern of interethnic exchange infused colonial relations and institutions with Guarani social meanings and expectations of reciprocity that forever changed Spaniards, African slaves, and their descendants. Austin demonstrates that Guarani of diverse social and political positions actively shaped colonial society along indigenous lines

Seit Peter dem Großen und seiner erzwungenen Verwestlichung Russlands zieht sich ein zutiefst ambivalentes Verhältnis zum Westen durch die russische Geschichte: der Westen als Vorbild und der Westen als Feindbild. Der renommierte Russlandhistoriker Manfred Hildermeier erzählt in seinem fundierten Buch die lange Geschichte dieser schwierigen Beziehung und bietet damit auch einen Schlüssel für das Verständnis der kriegerischen Politik Wladimir Putins in der Gegenwart. Russland fühlt sich vom Westen bedroht - diese Wahrnehmung gehört zu den offiziellen russischen Begründungen für den Überfall auf die Ukraine. Doch Russland hat Europa und Amerika über die Jahrhunderte hinweg auch immer wieder nachgeeifert und seinen eigenen Erfolg daran gemessen, wie weit es technisch, ökonomisch oder kulturell "aufgeholt" hat

The most authoritative account of a pivotal event in legal and cultural history: the trials of Oscar Wilde on charges of "gross indecency" Among the most infamous prosecutions of a literary figure in history, the two trials of Oscar Wilde for committing acts of "gross indecency" occurred at the height of his fame. After being found guilty, Wilde spent two years in prison, emerged bankrupt, and died in a cheap hotel room in Paris a few years after his release. The trials prompted a new intolerance toward homosexuality: habits of male bonding that were previously seen as innocent were now viewed as a threat, and an association grew in the public mind between gay men and the arts.Oscar Wilde on Trial assembles accounts from a variety of sources, including official and private letters, newspaper accounts, and previously published (but very incomplete) transcripts, to provide the most accurate and authoritative account to date of events that were pivotal in both legal and cultural history

Government Poverty and Incentive Pensions in the Nineteenth Century -- The Emergence of the War Welfare Field from Peace to War -- A Social Offensive on the Home Front -- The Last-Ditch Effort to Save the Monarchy -- War Victims, a New Power Factor -- A Republic with "the Correct National and Social Sensibilities" -- "The Public's Interest in Invalids Has Waned."

Enlightenment thinkers bequeathed a paradoxical legacy to the modern world: they expanded the purview of equality while simultaneously inventing the modern concept of race. The Color of Equality makes sense of this tension by demonstrating that the same Enlightenment impulse--the naturalization of humanity--underlay both of these trends

This book addresses enduring historiographical problems concerning the appearance of the first national movements in Europe and their role in the crises associated with the Age of Revolution. Considerable detail is supplied to the picture of Enlightenment era intellectual and cultural pursuits in which the nation was featured as both an object of theoretical interest and site of practice. In doing so, the work provides a major corrective to depictions of the period characteristic of earlier ventures - including those by authors as notable as Hobsbawm, Gellner, and Anderson -- while offering an advance in narrative coherence by portraying how developments in the sphere of ideas influenced the terms of political debate in France and elsewhere in the years preceding the upheavals of 1789-1815. Subsequent chapters explore the composite nature of the revolutions which followed and the challenges of determining the relative capacity of the three chief sources of contemporary unrest -- constitutional, national, and social -- to inspire extra-legal challenges to the Restoration status quo

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Regnal Dates -- Introduction -- Part 1. Religion as Revolution -- 1. Religion as Revolution -- 2. Permanently Revolutionary Religion -- Part 2. Working Modernity's Despair -- 3. Modernizing Despair -- 4. Modernizing Despair: Narrative and Lyric Entrapment -- 5. Modernizing Despair's Epic Non-Escape -- Part 3. Sincerity and Hypocrisy -- 6. Pre-Modern and Henrician Hypocrisy -- 7. The Revolutionary Hypocrite: Elizabethan Hypocrisy -- 8. Managing Hypocrisy?: Shakespeare, Milton, Bunyan, 1689 -- Part 4. Breaking Idols -- 9. Liberating Iconoclasm -- 10. Saving Images and the Calvinist Hammer -- 11. One Last Iconoclastic Push? -- Part 5. Theater, Magic, Sacrament -- 12. Religion, Dramicide, and the Rise of Magic -- 13. Enemies of the Revolution: Magic and Theater -- 14. Last Judgement: Stage Managing the Magic -- Part 6. Managing Scripture -- 15. Scripture: Institutions, Interpretation, and Violence -- 16. Private Scriptural Anguish -- 17. Escaping Literalism's Trap -- Part 7. Liberty and Liberties -- 18. Liberty Taking Liberties -- Conclusion -- Note on Texts and Citations -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index

"Policies concerning marriage, morality, and intimacy were central to the efforts of the Spanish monarchy to maintain social control in colonial Charcas. The Bourbon Crown depended on the patriarchal, caste-based social system on which its colonial enterprise was built to maintain control over a vast region that today encompasses Bolivia and parts of Peru, Chile, Paraguay, and Argentina. Intimacy became a fulcrum of social control contested by individuals, families, the state, and the Catholic Church, and deeply personal emotions and experiences were unwillingly transformed into social, political, and moral challenges. In Of Love and Loathing, Nicholas A. Robins examines the application of late-colonial Bourbon policies concerning marriage, morality, and intimacy. Drawing on archival sources, Robins examines how such policies and the means by which they were enforced highlight the moral, racial, and patriarchal ideals of the time, and, more important, the degree to which the policies were evaded. Not only did free unions, illegitimate children, and de facto divorces abound, but women also had significantly more agency regarding resources, relationships, and movement than has previously been recognized. A surprising image of society emerges from Robins's analysis, one with considerably more moral latitude than can be found from the perspectives of religious doctrine and regal edicts"--

Introduction: Remapping the Early Slave Narrative / Nicole N. Aljoe -- Irony and Modernity in the Early Slave Narrative : Bonds of Duty, Contracts of Meaning / Ian Finseth -- Trials and Confessions of Fugitive Slave Narratives / Gretchen J. Woertendyke -- "They Us'd Me Pretty Well" : Briton Hammon and Cross-Cultural Alliances in the Maritime Borderlands of the Florida Coast / Jeffrey Gagnon -- Uncommon Sufferings : Rethinking Bondage in A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man / Keith Michael Green -- Narrating an Indigestible Trauma : The Alimentary Grammar of Boyrereau Brinch's Middle Passage / Lynn R. Johnson -- "The Most Perfect Picture of Cuban Slavery" : Transatlantic Bricolage in Manzano's and Madden's Poems by a Slave / R.J. Boutelle -- Seeking a Righteous King : A Bahamian Runaway Slave in Cuba / Jose Guadalupe Ortega -- Literary Form and Islamic Identity in The Life of Omar Ibn Said / Basima Kamel Shaheen -- Coda: Animating Absence / Kristina Bross

This local history of Griqua Philippolis (1824-1862) and Afrikaner Orania (1990-2013) gets at the crux of the ever-pertinent land question in South Africa. Identifying the many layers of dispossession definitive of the South African past, the book presents a provocative new argument about land rights and the residues of settler colonialism.

"A rude place and an unpolisht man" : William Penn and the nature of Pennsylvania -- "An infancy of government" : population, authority, and the problem of proprietorship -- "A suitable charity or an effectual security" : community, contagion, and the care of strangers -- "A body corporate and politick" : association, interest, and improvement in a provincial city -- "Improvement in every part of the healing art" : transatlantic cultures of medical improvement -- "A fine field for professional improvement" : sites and sources of medical authority in the Revolutionary War -- "In a yielding state" : nervous nationalism in the new republic -- "Those friendly reciprocities" : panic and participation in the age of yellow fever -- "A matter of police" : fever and betrayal in the federal union