Author: Sullivan, Dennis.
Title: The punishment of crime in colonial New York : the Dutch experience in Albany during the seventeenth century.
Description: New York : Peter Lang, 1997. Hardcover. VIII,356 pp. (American university studies. Series IX, History, vol. 186). Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - Based in a highly profitable fur trade, the seventeenth century Dutch criminal justice system of the upper Hudson River Valley regulated the community with an eye toward not only maintaining peaceful social relations, but also preserving the economic system that allowed the community to survive. This work examines the punishment practices of the Beverwijck/Albany court during the seventeenth century, delineating changes that occurred in those practices amid fluctuations in the fur trade and after the English conquest of New Netherland in 1664. This study shows that punishment practices were integrally linked to the economic status of the community and, after English conquest, to the introduction of English law. ISBN 9780820437644.
Keywords: RECHT, history of law strafrecht
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Title: The punishment of crime in colonial New York : the Dutch experience in Albany during the seventeenth century.
Description: New York : Peter Lang, 1997. Hardcover. VIII,356 pp. (American university studies. Series IX, History, vol. 186). Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - Based in a highly profitable fur trade, the seventeenth century Dutch criminal justice system of the upper Hudson River Valley regulated the community with an eye toward not only maintaining peaceful social relations, but also preserving the economic system that allowed the community to survive. This work examines the punishment practices of the Beverwijck/Albany court during the seventeenth century, delineating changes that occurred in those practices amid fluctuations in the fur trade and after the English conquest of New Netherland in 1664. This study shows that punishment practices were integrally linked to the economic status of the community and, after English conquest, to the introduction of English law. ISBN 9780820437644.
Keywords: RECHT, history of law strafrecht
Price: EUR 20.00 = appr. US$ 21.74 Seller: Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag
- Book number: %23281997
- Book number: %23281997
See more books from our catalog: STRAFRECHT