New analysis and interpretation of law and legal institutions in the "long eighteenth century". Law and legal institutions were of huge importance in the govern
Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents an
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing pr
This book uses a wide range of primary sources - legal, literary and demographic - to provide a radical reassessment of eighteenth-century marriage. It disprove