1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461362203321

Autore

MacPhee Graham

Titolo

Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-22187-X

9786613221872

0-7486-4712-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Collana

Postcolonial Literary Studies

Disciplina

820.90014

Soggetti

English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism

Imperialism in literature

Postcolonialism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Timeline; Introduction; Chapter 1 Rethinking the End of Empire; Chapter 2 Decolonising the Discipline; Chapter 3 Rewriting the Nation; Bibliography; Further Reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the legacy of imperialism and decolonisation, globalisation and national identity



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459412603321

Autore

Bakken Gordon Morris

Titolo

Women Who Kill Men : California Courts, Gender, and the Press / / Gordon Morris Bakken & Brenda Farrington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, Neb. : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2009

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2012

©2009

ISBN

1-282-42397-5

9786612423970

0-8032-2657-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

Law in the American West

Altri autori (Persone)

FarringtonBrenda

Disciplina

345.794/02523

Soggetti

Women murderers - Social aspects - California

Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration - California - History

Women - Legal status, laws, etc - California - History

Trials (Murder) - California

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-262) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the sanest of them all? : the insanity defense in court and in the press -- Good riddance : justifiable homicides of enemy deviants -- Toward the new woman : feminine wiles on trial -- The haves and the have nots : women on trial during the Great Depression -- War women of the 1940's : evolutionary women in revolutionary times -- Celebrity on trial : Tinseltown tarnished.

Sommario/riassunto

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a revolutionary period in the lives of women, and the shifting perceptions of women and their role in society were equally apparent in the courtroom. Women Who Kill Men examines eighteen sensational cases of women on trial for murder from 1870 to 1958.



3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996390313703316

Titolo

The nevv actis and constitutionis of parliament maid be the rycht excellent prince Iames the Fift Kyng of Scottis 1540 [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Imprentit in Edinburgh, , be Thomas Dauidson, dwelling abone [sic] the nether bow, on the northsyde of the gait, , the aucht day of Februarii. The zeir of god. 1541. zeris.

Descrizione fisica

27 [i.e. 54] p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

James, King of Scotland,  <1512-1542.>

Soggetti

Law - Scotland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title and colop. ills., initials.

Imprint from colop. E₅r.

Signatures: A-B⁶ C⁴ D-E⁶.

Pages numbered on recto only.

Imperfect: print bleeding and show-through, with loss of text.

Reproduction of original in: National Library of Scotland.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0097