1997
First Published
3.36
Average Rating
298
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Through the means of four powerful and extraordinary narratives about a forgerer, a drunken female vagrant, a con man, and a prostitute in nineteenth-century Germany, this book explores intriguing questions about crime and justice in that era. The stories shed light on reactions to German penal policy during a period when the physical punishment of wrongdoers gave way to the concept of incarceration.
Avg Rating
3.36
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Author
Richard J. Evans
Author · 16 books
He was born in London, of Welsh parentage, and is now Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Gonville & Caius College. Evans has also taught at the University of Stirling, University of East Anglia and Birkbeck College, London. Having been a Visiting Professor in History at Gresham College during 2008/09, he is now the Gresham Professor of Rhetoric. He was educated at Forest School (Walthamstow), Jesus College, Oxford, and St Antony's College, Oxford. In a 2004 interview, Evans has stated that during frequent visits to Wales during his childhood inspired both an interest in history and a sense of "otherness".
