Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960
Seiten
2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-14258-9 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-14258-9 (ISBN)
Spanning over 2 centuries, James Gregory's Mercy and British Culture, 1760 -1960 provides a wide-reaching yet detailed overview of the concept of mercy in British cultural history. While there are many histories of justice and punishment, mercy has been a neglected element despite recognition as an important feature of the 18th-century criminal code.
Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960 looks first at mercy’s religious and philosophical aspects, its cultural representations and its embodiment. It then looks at large-scale mobilisation of mercy discourses in Ireland, during the French Revolution, in the British empire, and in warfare from the American war of independence to the First World War. This study concludes by examining mercy's place in a twentieth century shaped by total war, atomic bomb, and decolonisation.
Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960 looks first at mercy’s religious and philosophical aspects, its cultural representations and its embodiment. It then looks at large-scale mobilisation of mercy discourses in Ireland, during the French Revolution, in the British empire, and in warfare from the American war of independence to the First World War. This study concludes by examining mercy's place in a twentieth century shaped by total war, atomic bomb, and decolonisation.
James Gregory is Associate Professor of Modern British History at Plymouth University, UK. He is the author of Victorians and Vegetarians (2007), Reformers, Patrons and Philanthropists (2010), Victorians Against the Gallows (2011), The Poetry and the Politics (2014) and Libraries, Books and Collectors of Texts, 1600–1900 (2018).
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1 Religion, culture and embodiment
1 Mercy: Religious and philosophical dimensions
2 The culture of mercy in the long nineteenth century
3 Merciful agents and subjects
Part 2 Mercy challenged
4 Mercy for Ireland
5 British mercy and the French Revolution
6 Empire of mercy
7 The mercy of war
Conclusion: Modern mercy
Notes
Select bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 02.12.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | 20 bw illus |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 581 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-14258-1 / 1350142581 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-14258-9 / 9781350142589 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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