Male honour and the decline of public violence in eighteenth-century London

Social History

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 190-208

  Shoemaker, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRIME; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY; HOMICIDE; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MEN'S HEALTH; MORALITY; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOPATHY; UNITED KINGDOM; VICTIM; VIOLENCE;

CRIME; CRIME VICTIMS; ETHICS; GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HOMICIDE; LONDON; MEN; MEN'S HEALTH; MORALS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIAL VALUES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0042404941     PISSN: 03071022     EISSN: 14701200     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03071020110041352     Document Type: Note

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