This innovative textbook recounts famous and infamous incidents of death and disorder in early modern England, including the executions of St. Thomas More and Mary Queen of Scots and the untimely end of thousands of others.

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

How did the British navy maintain authority among its potentially disorderly crews? And what order exactly did it wish to establish?

This study situates 18th-century medical fever texts in the broader frame-work of British sentimental culture, explores representations of the fevered bodies, and the ways such representations reveal cultural anxieties along gender, race, and class lines.

This book is about a major scourge of any country - “crime.” The book is dedicated to all branches of law enforcement agencies and judicial branches which seek to combat the escalation of dimensions of crime and criminals. The author looks at various approaches applied as crime fighting methods and adopts his own methods which he assumes may merit some achievements. Using a voluminous amount of documents the book contains much pictorial materials with its captions from a variety of sources which will capture the interest of the reader and ends with his recommendations. Using both crime in developing and developed countries, he seeks to encourage greater local, regional and international co-operation among: governments, criminologist, law enforcement agencies, corrections agencies and law reformists. He hopes that this book will be a useful to all law-abiding denizens and criminal combatants.

In recent years there has been a massive upsurge in academic, professional and lay interest in mortality. This is reflected in academic and professional literature, in the popular media and in the proliferation of professional roles and training courses associated with aspects of death and dying. Until now the majority of reference material on death and dying has been designed for particular disciplinary audiences and has addressed only specific academic or professional concerns. There has been an urgent need for an authoritative but accessible reference work reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the field. This Encyclopedia answers that need. The Encyclopedia of Death and Dying consolidates and contextualizes the disparate research that has been carried out to date. The phenomena of death and dying and its related concepts are explored and explained in depth, from the approaches of varied disciplines and related professions in the arts, social sciences, humanities, medicine and the sciences. In addition to scholars and students in the field-from anthropologists and sociologists to art and social historians - the Encyclopedia will be of interest to other professionals and practitioners whose work brings them into contact with dying, dead and bereaved people. It will be welcomed as the definitive death and dying reference source, and an essential tool for teaching, research and independent study.

"Glennys Howarth provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive discussion of the key topics in death and dying and in so doing demonstrates that the study of mortality is germane to all areas of sociology. The book is organized thematically, utilizing empirical material from cross-national and cross-cultural perspectives. It carefully addresses questions about social attitudes to mortality, the social nature of death and dying, and explanations for change and diversity, and explores traditional and contemporary experiences of death."--Jacket.