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Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960 (Hardcover)
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Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960 (Hardcover)
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Spanning over 2 centuries, James Gregory's Mercy and British
Culture, 1760 -1960 provides a wide-reaching yet detailed overview
of the concept of mercy in British cultural history. While there
are many histories of justice and punishment, mercy has been a
neglected element despite recognition as an important feature of
the 18th-century criminal code. Mercy and British Culture,
1760-1960 looks first at mercy's religious and philosophical
aspects, its cultural representations and its embodiment. It then
looks at large-scale mobilisation of mercy discourses in Ireland,
during the French Revolution, in the British empire, and in warfare
from the American war of independence to the First World War. This
study concludes by examining mercy's place in a twentieth century
shaped by total war, atomic bomb, and decolonisation.
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