New directions in the historiography of the administration of the Bloody Code
In this article, I will review the recent historiography of the administration of the so-called Bloody Code of the long eighteenth century. The 1970s and 1980s witnessed a debate among Marxist historians and others over the extent to which the Bloody Code operated as a tool of the ruling elite to pr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2018
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| In: |
History compass
Year: 2018, Volume: 16, Issue: 8, Pages: 1-12 |
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| Summary: | In this article, I will review the recent historiography of the administration of the so-called Bloody Code of the long eighteenth century. The 1970s and 1980s witnessed a debate among Marxist historians and others over the extent to which the Bloody Code operated as a tool of the ruling elite to protect property interests. In recent years, however, several historians have begun to explore a different series of questions in regard to the Bloody Code. One theme that unites the current work is an emphasis on the variability of the Bloody Code. In the article, I discuss three areas of variability highlighted by this work: time, geography, and judicial decision-making. |
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| ISSN: | 1478-0542 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: History compass
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/hic3.12463 |
