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Unsound Empire
Author | : Catherine L. Evans |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2021-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300263022 |
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A study of the internal tensions of British imperial rule told through murder and insanity trials Unsound Empire is a history of criminal responsibility in the nineteenth‑century British Empire told through detailed accounts of homicide cases across three continents. If a defendant in a murder trial was going to hang, he or she had to deserve it. Establishing the mental element of guilt—criminal responsibility—transformed state violence into law. And yet, to the consternation of officials in Britain and beyond, experts in new scientific fields posited that insanity was widespread and growing, and evolutionary theories suggested that wide swaths of humanity lacked the self‑control and understanding that common law demanded. Could it be fair to punish mentally ill or allegedly “uncivilized” people? Could British civilization survive if killers avoided the noose?
Adequacy of Federal Home Loan Bank Board Supervision of Empire Savings and Loan Association
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Bank failures |
ISBN | : PURD:32754075434500 |
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Eagle and Empire
Author | : Alan Smale |
Publsiher | : Del Rey |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2017-05-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780804177276 |
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The award-winning author of Clash of Eagles and Eagle in Exile concludes his masterly alternate-history saga of the Roman invasion of North America in this stunning novel. Roman Praetor Gaius Marcellinus came to North America as a conqueror, but after meeting with defeat at the hands of the city-state of Cahokia, he has had to forge a new destiny in this strange land. In the decade since his arrival, he has managed to broker an unstable peace between the invading Romans and a loose affiliation of Native American tribes known as the League. But invaders from the west will shatter that peace and plunge the continent into war: The Mongol Horde has arrived and they are taking no prisoners. As the Mongol cavalry advances across the Great Plains leaving destruction in its path, Marcellinus and his Cahokian friends must summon allies both great and small in preparation for a final showdown. Alliances will shift, foes will rise, and friends will fall as Alan Smale brings us ever closer to the dramatic final battle for the future of the North American continent. Praise for Eagle and Empire “Smale delivers in spades . . . the best of the trilogy. Highly recommended.”—Historical Novels Review “The pace . . . is breathless and the action relentless. . . . A satisfying culmination to the adventures of a Roman warrior in the New World.”—Kirkus Reviews “The final volume of Smale’s Clash of Eagles trilogy is relentless, with characters and readers hardly getting a breath before the next threat comes crashing down. . . . Smale’s hard-hitting and satisfying conclusion will be a must for his readers, as the trilogy will be for any fan of alternate history.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[Eagle and Empire] had awesome worldbuilding, worthy and interesting characters, and a great plot. . . . Altogether, a very satisfying journey.”—The Nameless Zine
Global Trade and the Shaping of English Freedom
Author | : William A. Pettigrew |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2023-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198846710 |
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This book offers a new account of the connections between seventeenth century English history and the history of the rest of the world. Eschewing nationalist narratives, it demonstrates how greater engagement with the world beyond Europe shaped signature aspects of the English experience. Early modern trading corporations are the central actors in the story. Global Trade and the Shaping of English Freedom offers a profoundly altered reading of the practices of these entities. The companies were not monolithic entities pursuing narrow nationalist interests overseas. Nor were they inefficient monopolies doomed to commercial failure. In the seventeenth century, as this book shows, they were driven and transformed by the immediate and local interests of Company agents and their foreign networks. Because the trading companies were the most important bridge between international contexts and English legal and political debates, they connect non-European power and preference to those debates. These unappreciated actors within the corporate sphere play leading roles in this book as the shapers of English debate about the meaning of English freedom and the futures of the trades they participated in overseas. The book offers a new perspective on the foreign actors who shaped English commercial and legal ideas and practices in the seventeenth century, as well as the Ottoman, Bantenese, Huedan, Siamese, and Mughal contributions to the ideological, institutional, and procedural underpinnings that would develop, slowly but surely, into the British Empire.
Savings and Loan Policies in the Late 1970 s and 1980 s
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Savings and loan associations |
ISBN | : PSU:000017591300 |
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The Certification of Insanity
Author | : Filippo Maria Sposini |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2023-11-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783031427428 |
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This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire. Considering a variety of legal, archival, and published sources, it traces the origins and dissemination of a peculiar method for determining mental unsoundness defined as the ‘Victorian system’. Shaped by the dynamics surrounding the clandestine committal of wealthy Londoners in private madhouses, this system featured three distinctive tenets: standardized forms, independent medical examinations, and written facts of insanity. Despite their complexity, Victorian certificates achieved a remarkable success. Not only did they survive in the UK for more than a century, but they also served as a model for the development of mental health laws around the world. By the start of the Second World War, more than seventy colonial and non-colonial jurisdictions adopted the Victorian formula for making lunacy official with some countries still relying on it to this very day. Using case studies from Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific, this book charts the temporal and geographical trajectory of an imperial technology used to determine a person’s destiny. Shifting the focus from metropolitan policies to colonial dynamics, and from macro developments to micro histories, it explores the perspectives of families, doctors, and public officials as they began to deal with the delicate business of certification. This book will be of interest to scholars working on mental health policy, the history of medicine, disability studies, and the British Empire.
Final Oversight Hearings on the Savings and Loan Industry in the 100th Congress
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Savings and loan associations |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105062171934 |
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Age of Emergency
Author | : Erik Linstrum |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780197572030 |
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Analyzing the period after 1945 when uprisings against colonial rule broke out across the world, Age of Emergency (Oxford University Press), focuses on how violence was experienced in the lives of ordinary people in imperial Britain. Using various historical records including letters, television, newspapers, novels, and more, Linstrum uncovers the violent torture, executions, and gruesome punishments the community faced. Throughout his writing, Linstrum demonstrates the significance of war beyond the fight between soldiers, and the ways in which war encroaches on all aspects of life.