Adriaan Verhulst, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Ghent, is best known to
English readers for his work on urban origins, notably The Rise of Cities in North-West …

We have all attended (and perhaps even participated in) conference panels where the
papers do not exactly fit together. But occasionally there is that panel where subjects …

The research for this book was conducted as part of the project Crime and gender 1600-
1900: A comparative perspective, directed by Manon van der Heijden, and funded by the …

In 1939, at one of civilization's lowest points, a little-known Swiss sociologist, Norbert Elias,
published a book called''Uber den Prozess der Zivilisation''(''On the Civilizing Process'') with …

Policing, the first theme, is the subject of work by Joseph Tropea, Douglas Peers, David
Taylor, and Haia Shpayer-Makov. Tropea suggests that in both Anglo-Saxon England and …

This milestone in the field of sociohistorical studies of crime and justice offers recent works
by ten European and American scholars who examine crime in a variety of countries-not just …

Crime bubbles like a virtually inexhaustible source and one at which hundreds of scholars
have quenched their intellectual thirsts. Their approaches, however, have quite strikingly …

168pp.€ 59.00. This volume represents a collection of studies first presented at the second
Dorestad Congress, which accompanied the 2014 exhibition 'Golden Middle Ages: The …

This edited collection consists of essays on several aspects of criminal history, ranging from
an exploration of the legal response to infanticide since 1600 to large-scale fraud in the …

Poindexter [June 10, 1834], in Papers of Nicholas Biddle, Library of Congress, Letterbooks,
p. 220 [emphasis added]). The draft could then be discounted and the proceeds passed to …