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Moral vigilance -- Licensing at the front line: London and Blackpool -- Licensing in the provinces: Sheffield, Glasgow and Lewis -- Battle at the Beeb part 1 -- The privatisation of moral vigilance -- The sixties liberalisation of licensing -- The humanist challenge -- Battle at the Beeb part 2 -- The birth of civilised Britain.

"Bartholomeo Minconi did not have the profitable day he hoped for in the market outside Medicina. The forty-year-old salt smuggler came to the large town directly east of Bologna, from his hometown of Lugo in the Romagna, in April of 1670. A notary from Bologna's criminal court, the Tribunale del Torrone, recorded his brother's testimony the next day, itself informed by the gossip of "many and diverse persons": Bartholomeo attempted to break up a fight between two of his fellow townsmen and smugglers, Francesco Zanconi and Baldissera Vetria. The pair argued over "a certain wagon of grain," which, presumably, was stuffed with their contraband. When harsh words left them "injured, both of them brought themselves forward with their guns in hand," and the men squared off to fight. Francesco pulled the trigger first, but his weapon jammed. Because all involved were neighbours, Bartholomeo Minconi tried to intervene in this brewing duel; he died in the ensuing crossfire. According to his brother, Bartholomeo was a peaceful citizen who had offered to settle the debt between Zanconi and Vetria out of his own funds.1 The smugglers' conflict, rooted in their illegal trade, arose from their familiarity with each other and might have been quelled by its virtues. That conflict came to violence in Medicina and occurred in the bright market day in a crowded square, where onlookers hid in doorways but still watched with fascination. A dispute over an unspecified debt between men, who otherwise cooperated in their illegal trade, left a third man, another smuggler, dead in the square, turning an argument into a homicide. Bartholomeo paid for his peacefulness with his life-one of sixty-one people in this North Italian province of some 225,000 to die violently in Bolognese lands in that late-century year"--

Historicizing emotions : performance, sensibility, and the rule of law / David Lemmings and Allyson N. May -- Feminine performances and the criminal trial : women's emotional work in the public sphere -- "It will be expected by you all, to hear something from me" : emotion, performance, and child murder in Britain in the eighteenth century / Dana Rabin -- The prosecutorial passions : an emotional history of petty treason and parricide in England, 1674-1790 / Andrea McKenzie -- Shame and malice in the eighteenth-century criminal court and community / E.J. Snell -- Emotional communities and sensibilities : truth, theatre and blasphemy in court -- Sympathetic speech : telling truths in the nineteenth-century Irish court / Katie Barclay -- Swearing and feeling : the secularization of truth-seeking in the Victorian English court / Simon Devereaux -- Irish sensibilities and the English bar : the advocacy of Charles Phillips / Allyson N. May -- Emotional regimes and the legal process : stories of terror, sensibility and patriotism in the representation of criminal trials -- Theatre of Blood: On the Criminal Trial as Tale of Terror / Hal Gladfelder -- Doctor dodd and the law in the age of the sentimental revolution / Randall McGowen -- Thomas erskine and the performance of moral sentiments : the emotional reportage of trials for "criminal conversation" and treason in the 1790s / David Lemmings -- Contributors -- Index

Venice's Secret Service is the untold and arresting story of the world's earliest centrally-organised state intelligence service. Long before the inception of SIS and the CIA, in the period of the Renaissance, the Republic of Venice had masterminded a remarkable centrally-organised state intelligence organisation that played a pivotal role in the defence of the Venetian empire. Housed in the imposing Doge's Palace and under the direction of the Council of Ten, the notorious governmental committee that acted as Venice's spy chiefs, this 'proto-modern' organisation served prominent intelligence functions including operations (intelligence and covert action), analysis, cryptography and steganography, cryptanalysis, and even the development of lethal substances.0Official informants and amateur spies were shipped across Europe, Anatolia, and Northern Africa, conducting Venice's stealthy intelligence operations. Revealing a plethora of secrets, their keepers, and their seekers, Venice's Secret Service explores the social and managerial processes that enabled their existence and that furnished the foundation for an extraordinary intelligence organisation created by one of the early modern world's most cosmopolitan states

""Ma seule politique, la voici : c'est d'être toujours prêt... Quant à me mêler de la paix ou de la guerre, cela ne me regarde pas. Si la guerre arrive, je dois être prêt ; tel est mon devoir et je le remplirai", claironnait Edmond Le Boeuf, ministre de la Guerre au printemps 1870! Personnages clés des gouvernements, les ministres avaient pour fonction de veiller au bien-être des armées, d'organiser le recrutement, d'adopter des mesures pour armer les hommes, les nourrir, les loger, leur verser une solde et, le cas échéant, participer aux combats. Présenté dans l'ordre chronologique, cet ouvrage retrace la biographie des cinquante ministres qui se succédèrent entre le 10 août 1792 date du renversement de la monarchie et le 4 septembre 1870, qui vit la proclamation de la République. Dépassant le seul cadre biographique, ce dictionnaire embrasse les problématiques de la gestion de la guerre, de la protection du pays, de la préparation de la nation à l'engagement. Il révèle la complexité des enjeux, la variété des situations, le rôle des hommes, la nature des décisions, heureuses ou funestes, qui présidèrent à la construction d'un outil militaire en France."--Page 4 of cover