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Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. A Brief Portrait of a Time Barely Familiar -- Chapter 2. Royals and Rulers -- Chapter 3. Murder and Crime in London -- Chapter 4. Lawless Noblemen and Duelling Gentlemen -- Chapter 5. Town and Countryside Murders -- Chapter 6. Robbers, Bandits and Highwaymen -- Chapter 7. Britain's Earliest Serial Killers -- Chapter 8. Coastal Crimes -- Chapter 9. Riots, Disorder and Insurrection -- Chapter 10. Clan Warfare -- Chapter 11. War Crimes -- Chapter 12. Judicial Murder -- Afterword -- Index -- Back cover.

Cover -- Dedication -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Domestic Violence -- Chapter 2 Sexual Abuse -- Chapter 3 Libel & -- Slander -- Chapter 4 Abduction & -- Clandestine Marriage -- Chapter 5 The Smart of the Lash -- Chapter 6 Burned Alive -- Chapter 7 An Exiled World -- Chapter 8 At the Mercy of the Mob -- Chapter 9 Locked in the Cage -- Chapter 10 Hot Iron & -- Cold Steel -- Chapter 11 Hanged by the 'Bloody Code' -- Chapter 12 Male Impersonators & -- Female Actors -- Chapter 13 Seen But Not Heard -- Chapter 14 Gracing the Stool -- Plate section -- Chapter 15 Religious Belief: Persecution & -- Punishment -- Chapter 16 Suffer a Witch -- Chapter 17 Military Wives & -- Camp Followers -- Chapter 18 The Morality Police -- Chapter 19 The 'Whipping Toms' -- Chapter 20 Growing Distaste & -- Abolition -- Appendix A 'How the Women went from Dover' 1662 - John Greenleaf Whittier -- Appendix B 'The Ducking Stool' 1780 - Benjamin West -- Appendix C Trial of Eleanor Beare 1732 - Sentenced to be Pilloried & -- Imprisoned -- Appendix D Trial of Elizabeth Cammell 1783 - Sentenced to be Severely Whipped & -- Hard Labour -- Appendix E Tariff of Corporal Punishments - Female Apprentices in Jamaica - 1858 -- Appendix F Seventeenth & -- Eighteenth Century Slang - Women's Bodies, Characters & -- Professions -- Appendix G Women Burned at the Stake 1721-1789 -- Appendix H A Woman's Tyburn 'Hanging Day' -- Appendix I Benefit of Clergy -- Appendix J Relative Value of Money -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Hunter-Gatherings and Fisherfolk: 10,000 to 5000 BP -- Chapter 3. Shafts of Sunlight: Agriculturalists -- Chapter 4. Closed and Open Systems, AD 550 To AD 1700 -- Chapter 5. Building Jerusalem: The Eighteen Century -- Chapter 6. Industrial Growth: Material Empires, 1800-1914 -- Chapter 7. 'A Fit Country for Heroes', 1914-50 -- Chapter 8. A Post-industrial World, 1950 to the Present -- Chapter 9. Experience and Meaning -- Appendix 1. The Changing Environment From the Air -- Notes -- Biographies -- Glossary -- A Selected Bibliography -- Index

This timely history explores the entry, reception and resettlement of refugees across twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on four cohorts of refugees - Jewish and other refugees from Nazism; Hungarians in 1956; Ugandan Asians expelled by Idi Amin; and Vietnamese 'boat people' who arrived in the wake of the fall of Saigon - Becky Taylor deftly integrates refugee history with key themes in the history of modern Britain. She thus demonstrates how refugees' experiences, rather than being marginal, were emblematic of some of the principal developments in British society. Arguing that Britain's reception of refugees was rarely motivated by humanitarianism, this book reveals the role of Britain's international preoccupations, anxieties and sense of identity; and how refugees' reception was shaped by voluntary efforts and the changing nature of the welfare state. Based on rich archival sources, this study offers a compelling new perspective on changing ideas of Britishness and the place of 'outsiders' in modern Britain.

At the zenith of GB power at the beginning of the 20th century there was a widespread recognition that GB's position in the emerging global industrial interstate system was increasingly precarious & that widespread adjustments would be needed. One solution, the "imperial federalism" of Seeley & Mackinder, proposed the political integration of the scattered British settler colonies into a "Greater Britain." Alternatively, Wells predicted that GB would become integrated into an Anglo-American "greater synthesis," & that Europe would be unified on "Swiss confederal" rather than German authoritarian lines. These proposals & prophesies were based upon interpretations of the changing material context composed of technology interacting with geography, & were seriously flawed. Extensive debates on these schemes indicate that the range of grand strategic choice was broader than that conceptualized by contemporary realism. The failure of GB national integration due to geographic factors & the endurance of the Anglo-American special relationship casts the roles of the nation-state & the Western liberal order in a new perspective. Adapted from the source document.

Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Author's Note -- Picture Acknowledgements -- Acknowledgements and Dedications -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Natural Death -- Chapter 2: The Soldierly Death -- Chapter 3: The Criminal Death -- Chapter 4: The Deathbed -- Chapter 5: Of Corpses, Coffins, and Carriages -- Chapter 6: The Common and the Noble Funeral -- Chapter 7: Royal Funerals -- Chapter 8: The Unorthodox Burial -- Chapter 9: Remembrance -- Conclusion: The Seventeenth Century and Beyond -- Chapter Notes -- Bibliography -- Back Cover.

Stumping," or making political speeches in favor of a candidate, cause, or campaign has been around since before the 1800s, when speechmaking was frequently portrayed as delivered from the base of a tree. The practice, which has been strongly associated with the American frontier, British agitators, and colonial Australia, remains an effective component of contemporary democratic politics. In his engaging book On the Stump, Sean Scalmer provides the first comprehensive, transnational history of the "stump speech." He traces the development and transformation of campaign oratory, as well as how national elections and public life and culture have been shaped by debate over the past century. Scalmer presents an eloquent study of how "stumping" careers were made, sustained, remembered, and exploited, to capture the complex rhythms of political change over the years. On the Stump examines the distinctive dramatic and performative styles of celebrity orators including Davy Crockett, Henry Clay, and William Gladstone. Ultimately, Scalmer recovers the history of the stump speech and its historical significance in order to better understand how political change is forged.