Bøger af Brian Jenkins

First published in 1990, Nationalism in France (now with a new preface by the author) is a concise history of the post-revolutionary period in France and provides at the same time an original study of the evolution of French Nationalism since 1789.

A Historical Lead Up To The Current Crisis Gripping Crimea Ukraine is a country situated between Europe and Federal Russia and is considered the "breadbasket" of Europe. It was one of the original constituents of the Soviet Union that dissolved in 1991. Since then, it has established a rather unstable democracy with a very frail economy. Within the country today, an acute political rift emerged between its pro-Russian eastern and its pro-Europe western regions. This all began when Ukraine's pro-Russia President Viktor Yanukovych declined an association agreement with the European Union. The agreement aimed at the integration of Ukrainian economy with the Western countries, which many Ukrainians saw as their chance for economic prosperity. Due to Yanukovych's rejection of the deal, mass upheavals started to enuse across Ukraine and the once internal unrest careened towards a war with its powerful neighbor, Russia. Fights broke between Ukraine patriots and Russian military troops sided by pro-Russia Ukrainian rebels. Russia's aggression quickly led to international involvement in which world leaders urged the two nations to arrive at a diplomatic solution. According to them the problem has great possibility of reaching a global scale if not addressed promptly. Information covered in this book... Ukraine's Struggle for Independence Holodomor: The Face of Soviet Famine in Ukraine (Special Coverage) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine Disputes The 2014 Ukrainian Crisis

Smethurst and Maybrick became instant and enduring controversies. Had they been guilty of murder? The professions of medicine and law were divided on the question. Did the evidence in each of the cases pass the test of reasonable doubt? The personalities and characters of Smethurst & Maybrick, and those of the variety of officials who played significant roles in their individual crises is carefully examined. Did the judges act fairly towards these defendants or did they instruct the juries to convict on the basis of moral crimes, bigamy and adultery, they being simpler to understand than complex scientific evidence about which even experts could not agree? Popular opinion was shaped by a press which reported the trials in astonishing detail, and the mushrooming literate public considered themselves qualified to act as judges. One anomaly of English criminal justice was the absence of a court of criminal appeal to reverse unsound convictions, but this void press and public willingly filled. Clamours against convictions and executions were not new, but the crusades on behalf first of Smethurst and thirty years later of Maybrick were highly organized and powerful. Petitions, some carrying signatures collected at the underground stations of London's expanding underground railway, flooded in, and letters of criticism of the verdicts were addressed to editors of newspapers and published.Class raised its head, the lower orders resenting what they saw as the gentler treatment of middle class Maybrick before her trial but they were still found among those protesting her sentence to death. Commutations and pardons were handled by a politician, the Home Secretary. That Maybrick was more harshly treated than Smethurst probably reflected the gender discrimination of men appalled by her violations of the patriarchy by engaging in adultery and perhaps murdering her husband. Fortunately, her American birth led to American intervention.

The alleged 1857 murder of a wealthy Bond Street dentist by a Emma Cunningham, a young widow he was believed to be sexually involved with, served to distract many New Yorkers from the deepening national crisis over slavery in America. This reexamination places the story in its social and political context.

Tells the story of Glasgow socialite Madeleine Smith's sensational murder - a trial that captivated both Britain and America. Despite compelling evidence of guilt, various factors lead to Smith's acquittal.