Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Returns and Papers Presented to the House of Lords ... in Session 1852, Relative to the Affairs of the East India Company
Author: Cursed Britain
Author: Thomas WatersPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300249454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
The definitive history of how witchcraft and black magic have survived, through the modern era and into the present dayCursed Britain unveils the enduring power of witchcraft, curses and black magic in modern times. Few topics are so secretive or controversial. Yet, whether in the 1800s or the early 2000s, when disasters struck or personal misfortunes mounted, many Britons found themselves believing in things they had previously dismissed – dark supernatural forces.Historian Thomas Waters here explores the lives of cursed or bewitched people, along with the witches and witch-busters who helped and harmed them. Waters takes us on a fascinating journey from Scottish islands to the folklore-rich West Country, from the immense territories of the British Empire to metropolitan London. We learn why magic caters to deep-seated human needs but see how it can also be abused, and discover how witchcraft survives by evolving and changing. Along the way, we examine an array of remarkable beliefs and rituals, from traditional folk magic to diverse spiritualities originating in Africa and Asia.This is a tale of cynical quacks and sincere magical healers, depressed people and furious vigilantes, innocent victims and rogues who claimed to possess evil abilities. Their spellbinding stories raise important questions about the state’s role in regulating radical spiritualities, the fragility of secularism and the true nature of magic.
Accounts and Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Law and Language
Author: Michael FreemanPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019165468X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought. Each colloquium examines how the external discipline is conceived in legal thought and argument, how the law is pictured in that discipline, and analyses points of controversy in the use, and abuse, of extra-legal arguments within legal theory and practice. Law and Language, the fifteenth volume in the Current Legal Issues series, offers an insight into the scholarship examining the relationship between language and the law. The issues examined in this book range from problems of interpretation and beyond this to the difficulties of legal translation, and further to non-verbal expression in a chapter tracing the use of sign language at the Old Bailey; it examines the role of language and the law in a variety of literary works, including Hamlet; and considers the interrelation between language and the law in a variety of contexts, including criminal law, contract law, family law, human rights law, and EU law.
Parliamentary Papers. A Catalogue of important Reports, Evidences, and Papers, printed by Order of the Houses of Lords and Commons
Author: Philip Stephen KINGPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Law and Language
Author: Michael FreemanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199673667
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Offers a broad overview of the interaction between law and language and the way they infuence each other. Contains papers from the 15th annual interdisciplinary colloquium held in the Law School of UCL in July 2011.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Catalog of the Library of the Statistical Society
Author: Statistical Society (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Statistical Society ...
Author: Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
India's Railway History
Author: John Hurd IIPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004231153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
India has had operating railways for well-over 150 years: railways that have played a central and well-documented role in the making of India in the colonial and post-colonial eras. This handbook provides a reference guide for researchers interested in almost any facet of the history, colonial and post-colonial, of these railways. The secondary literature is identified and surveyed, primary sources and their locations identified, statistical and cartographic data discussed and presented, and a massive bibliography made available. This handbook is the indispensable tool for anyone seeking to understand India's railways and the roles they played in the making of modern India.
