The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilbur Miller
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Crime

Resetting the Legal History of Slavery: Divination, Torture, Poisoning, Murder, Revolution, Emancipation, and Re-enslavement

2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 1089-1095
Author(s):  
Walter Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Social History ◽  
Legal History ◽  
African History ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Crime

Each of these four lapidary papers scratches a stylus across fixed categories and settled understandings: embedding the legal history of the Americas in the African history of crime and punishment; uncovering the intellectual history of the metropole in the social history of the colonies; using the restless contingency of biography to trouble the most durable of historiographical boundaries, that between slavery and freedom. Taken together, they dismantle and then suggestively refit the history of slavery and law in the time of revolution and emancipation.

Crime and the Law: The Social History of Crime in Western Europe Since 1500.

1981 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 672
Author(s):  
J. A. Chartres ◽  
V. A. C. Gatrell ◽  
Bruce Lenman ◽  
Geoffrey Parker
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law ◽  
History Of Crime

Early Cinema in Scotland

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Early Cinema ◽  
Popular Song ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Production History ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Audience

This collection of essays, drawn from a three-year AHRC research project, provides a detailed context for the history of early cinema in Scotland from its inception in 1896 till the arrival of sound in the early 1930s. It details the movement from travelling fairground shows to the establishment of permanent cinemas, and from variety and live entertainment to the dominance of the feature film. It addresses the promotion of cinema as a socially ‘useful’ entertainment, and, distinctively, it considers the early development of cinema in small towns as well as in larger cities. Using local newspapers and other archive sources, it details the evolution and the diversity of the social experience of cinema, both for picture goers and for cinema staff. In production, it examines the early attempts to establish a feature film production sector, with a detailed production history of Rob Roy (United Films, 1911), and it records the importance, both for exhibition and for social history, of ‘local topicals’. It considers the popularity of Scotland as an imaginary location for European and American films, drawing their popularity from the international audience for writers such as Walter Scott and J.M. Barrie and the ubiquity of Scottish popular song. The book concludes with a consideration of the arrival of sound in Scittish cinemas. As an afterpiece, it offers an annotated filmography of Scottish-themed feature films from 1896 to 1927, drawing evidence from synopses and reviews in contemporary trade journals.

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