The conquest of death : violence and the birth of the modern English state
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 12070
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- ISBN
- 9780300217063
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Using data on coroners’ courts from multiple UK archives, Conquest builds an innovative account of the administration of the early modern state. It demonstrates how the English state established its authority to define legitimate and illegitimate violence through developing the capacity to investigate violent deaths, thereby contributing to a central topic in the study of state formation. Coroners, it shows, contributed in fundamental ways to the centralisation of the early modern English state, and to the development of its administrative capacities. John A. Hall describes it as a brilliant analysis of the internal workings of the state.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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