Twelve Scots Trials - Couverture souple

Roughead, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1275091261 ISBN 13 : 9781275091269

Editeur : Gale, Making of Modern Law, 2012

Synopsis

Full Title: "Twelve Scots Trials"Description: "The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926" collection provides descriptions of the major trials from over 300 years, with official trial documents, unofficially published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments and more. Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as those precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional and historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery case, the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey" trial."Trials" provides unfiltered narrative into the lives of the trial participants as well as everyday people, providing an unparalleled source for the historical study of sex, gender, class, marriage and divorce.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++MonographYale Law LibraryEdinburgh and London: William Green & Sons 1913

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

These adventures in criminal biography, begun at the suggestion of the late Mr. Andrew Lang, with his kind encouragement were completed shortly before his death. Mr. Lang read them in manuscript. He was good enough to approve them, and had promised to write an Introduction when they came to be published. Thus, by his sudden passing, which has left literature so much the poorer, the reader is deprived of what would have been the most attractive feature of the book. Dickens has noted the exclusive nature of a true professional relish, as shown in the enthusiasm of Mr. Dennis; and while, personally, I find the people of our causes celebres more convincing than those of many popular and prolific writers, it is quite possible that the reader may not share my taste. I know the disadvantages under which the subjects of these studies labour in competition with their rivals of the circulating library. The fact that they were real men and women, who sinned and suffered in their day, and whose stories are unfortunately true, is alone enough to alienate the sympathy of a fiction-loving public. Yet here we have characters and incidents as curious, and problems in psychology as perplexing, as any wherewith the modern novelist delights his votaries; and although the fitness of my rascals to adorn a tale may be questioned, their ability to point a moral is beyond dispute. So I venture to hope that, if their regrettable actuality be overlooked, they may even afford some measure of entertainment. The selection of the cases dealt with is purely arbitrary.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gale, Making of Modern Law
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1275091261
• ISBN 13: 9781275091269
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
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• Personne responsable: non disponible