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Explores why minor slights to certain kinds of gentlemen led to
duels in order for honour to be satisfied, and how such ideas about
honour changed over time. This book, the most comprehensive study
of the English pistol duel yet undertaken, examines what it meant
to be a man of honour in eighteenth and nineteenth century England.
A thorough survey of the incidence and distribution of duelling,
both socially and geographically, identifies those sub-groups of
gentlemen most likely to duel. The author considers the mores and
manners of such groups and asks why it was that within specific
professions, minor slightscould only be requited by a demand for
satisfaction. In doing so, the author rejects those traditional
histories of duelling which have failed to engage with the internal
dynamics and internal logic of the phenomenon itself. Too often
historians have explained the rise of opposition to duelling in
terms of social and cultural change whilst at the same time
treating the duel as though its ideological content had become
irrevocably fixed in the early seventeenth century. Honour culture
too had a social and an intellectual history and the author
outlines those conflicts of ideas within the culture of honour
itself that did much to hasten the demise of the English duel. A
Polite Exchange of Bullets will be welcomed as a fresh approach to
an important social phenomenon by all those interested in duelling
and in English social and cultural history. STEPHEN BANKS is a
lecturer in criminal law at Reading University Law School and
co-director of The Forum of Legal and Historical Research.
A study of law, wrongdoing and justice as conceived in the minds of
the ordinary people of England and Wales from the later eighteenth
century to the First World War. Shortlisted for the 2015 Katharine
Briggs Award This is a study of law, wrongdoing and justice as
conceived in the minds of the ordinary people of England and Wales
from the later eighteenth century to the First World War. Official
justice was to become increasingly centralised with declining
traditional courts, emerging professional policing and a new prison
estate. However, popular concepts of what was, or should be,
contained within the law were often at variance with its formal
written content. Communities continued to hold mock courts, stage
shaming processions and burn effigies of wrongdoers. The author
investigates those justice rituals, the actors, the victims andthe
offences that occasioned them. He also considers the role such
practices played in resistive communities trying to preserve their
identity and assert their independence. Finally, whilst documenting
the decline of popular justice traditions this book demonstrates
that they were nevertheless important in bequeathing a powerful set
of symbols and practices to the nascent labour movement. This book
will be of interest to scholars and students of legalhistory and
criminal justice as well as social and cultural history in what
could be considered a very long nineteenth century. Stephen Banks
is an associate professor in criminal law, criminal justice and
legal historyat the University of Reading, co-director of the Forum
for Legal and Historical Research and author of A Polite Exchange
of Bullets: The Duel and the English Gentleman, 1750-1850 (The
Boydell Press, 2010).
Rethinking Risk Assessment tells the story of a pioneering investigation that challenges preconceptions about the frequency and nature of violence among persons with mental disorders, and suggests an innovative approach to predicting its occurrence.
Get Ready Books teach valuable life lessons with your favorite
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SquarePants has come down with a bad case of the suds, and he's
afraid to go to the doctor. But when being sick means having to
miss a day of work at the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob must face his
fear! With over 30 stickers, this funny storybook shows children 3
to 7 that they shouldn't be afraid of the doctor. Featuring popular
Nickelodeon characters and fun-filled stories, Get Ready Books
teach important social-emotional lessons. Look for the first book
in the series, You Can Do It! The Emmy award-winning SpongeBob
SquarePants is Nickelodeon's longest running series. For nearly
twenty years, the joyfully optimistic SpongeBob and his friends
Patrick, Squidward, and Sandy have entertained fans around the
world with their undersea silliness.
Law and Society in England 1750-1950 is an indispensable text for
those wishing to study English legal history and to understand the
foundations of the modern British state. In this new updated
edition the authors explore the complex relationship between legal
and social change. They consider the ways in which those in power
themselves imagined and initiated reform and the ways in which they
were obliged to respond to demands for change from outside the
legal and political classes. What emerges is a lively and critical
account of the evolution of modern rights and expectations, and an
engaging study of the formation of contemporary social,
administrative and legal institutions and ideas, and the road that
was travelled to create them. The book is divided into eight
chapters: Institutions and Ideas; Land; Commerce and Industry;
Labour Relations; The Family; Poverty and Education; Accidents; and
Crime. This extensively referenced analysis of modern social and
legal history will be invaluable to students and teachers of
English law, political science, and social history.
Updated with a new introduction by the authors, this anniversary
edition shows the sibling relationship as a distinctive emotional,
passionate, painful, and solacing power that shapes who we are and
who we become. The relationships among brothers and sisters are
infinitely varied-a sibling can be one's worst enemy or closest
companion. Though their love or hate, envy or compassion, and
closeness or rivalry are formed in childhood, these bonds last
throughout life, creating character and affecting behavior in
numerous situations. Strangely, this profound attachment-second
only to the parent-child bond-was rarely studied or understood
until recently, perhaps because the feelings siblings have about
each other are usually both intense and secret.Bank and Kahn chart
this unknown territory, offering a theory of the ways in which
siblings attach, create each other's identities, and affect the
course of each other's lives. Illustrated with poignant portraits
of brothers and sisters in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood,
this book provides a profound understanding of these complex and
enduring relationships, examining the influence of childhood
intimacy, parental behavior, family turmoil, birth order, and
gender.Based on more than twenty years of research and clinical
evidence, "The Sibling Bond" fifteenth anniversary edition brings
fresh insight to important clinical and theoretical issues,
including attachment theory, the development of the self, and the
emergence of sexual identity. While Bank and Kahn demonstrate the
implications of their findings for both individual and family
therapy, they also give readers a vivid opportunity to recognize
and reflect on their own sibling relationships.
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