Evangelicalism, Penal Theory and the Politics of Criminal Law

Evangelicalism, Penal Theory and the Politics of Criminal Law
Author: R. Follett
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2000-11-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 140393276X

Following the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, a group of politicians began to agitate for reform of England's "bloody code" of criminal statutes. This examines the politics and propaganda of criminal law reform from 1808 to the Whig succession to power in 1830.

Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Revolution

Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Revolution
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 2462
Release: 2021-03-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351670166

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1967 and 1997, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the industrial revolution and provides an examination of related key issues. The volumes examine urban workers and the working class in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, economic growth during the industrial revolution, and the causes of the industrial revolution, with a primary focus on England. This set will be of particular interest to students of history, business and economics.