The Village in Court: Arson, Infanticide, and Poaching in the Court Records of Upper Bavaria 1848 1910

by Regina Schulte

The rural village in nineteenth-century Europe was caught in a conflict between its traditional local culture and its new integration into the grasp of state institutions and modern social structures. Local practices were turned into crimes; the social meaning of crime within the village culture was redefined by the introduction of bourgeois penal law and psychiatry. The language of the intruding agencies had created, through a wealth of written documentation,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521431867
• ISBN13: 9780521431866
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"