Engines of Truth :
Producing Veracity in the Victorian Courtroom /
Wendie Ellen Schneider.

Description

Main Author

Schneider, Wendie Ellen

Language(s)

English

Published

©2016.
London : Knowledge Unlatched, c2016.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2016.

Subjects

Law.
History.

Summary

During the Victorian era, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting perjury. Drawing on a broad array of archival research, Wendie Schneider chronicles this period of experimentation and how its innovations-particularly cross-examination-shaped contemporary trial procedure. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

Note

Also issued in print and PDF version.

Physical Description

1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations, figures, tables.

ISBN

9780300125665 (print-ISBN)

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