Between 1770 and 1830, crucial changes in penal law, including the increasing professionalization of law enforcement, and the decline in popularity of some of the traditional genres in the popular literature of crime, meant that crime content in newspapers was expanded and re-organised.
"In 1920, Charles-Edward A. Winslow (1877-1957), a faculty member at the Yale School of Medicine, penned his “classic definition” of public health as…"
Published anonymously in 1818, it is one of the most recognizable and enduring novels in English literature. Initial critical reaction to Frankenstein was often unfavourable, but in the twentieth century critics began to analyze the novel from a variety of new perspectives.
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The French library Enfer ("hell") collection began in the 1600s with works "contrary to public morality" & continues to grow. Click to read about its history.
Our modern-day fascination with China derives in large part from its recent rise as a modernised global power. Indeed, such terms as ‘the rise of China’ or ‘modern China’ are almost ubiquitous if one lives in today’s West. Perhaps as a result of this new public interest, increasing numbers of academics have been attracted to research China and its modernity.
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