This book examines how the law was made, defined, administered, and used in eighteenth-century England. A team of leading international historians explore the w

This is a collection of essays critically examining the historical development of the modern criminal law.

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017 Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700 explores the potential for the 'micro-study' approach to the history of crime and lega

Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents an

How was law made in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Through detailed studies of what the courts actually did, Peter King argues that p