Bøger af Joseph Canning

NO EVIL TOO GREAT, NO ACT TOO SAVAGE...It is 1844... and a vicious gang of robbers and thugs is terrorising a remote region of East Anglia. Rapacious and bloodthirsty and depraved, they have fled the London 'peelers' via the new railway to the small market town of Hamwyte, where there is no effective law and the pickings are easy... isolated mansions and lonely farmhouses, their owners brutally tortured, their womenfolk assaulted. The gang laugh at authority... no act is too savage for them, no evil too great... not even murder. Someone has to stop them...

England's last revolution......when early in the Nineteenth Century thousands of agricultural labourers, near to starving, living in abject poverty, without bread, without work and without hope, subject to the most draconian laws in Europe and ruled by an unsympathetic Parliament of land-owning gentry, hoisted the black flag of anarchy and the 'Tricolour' of revolution and marched across the southern counties of England, destroying farm machinery, burning barns and straw stacks and terrorising the rich.'Bread or blood!' they chanted and the Government, fearing a revolution akin to France, were swift and brutal in their response. Mass arrests were made and mass trials conducted at special assize courts, followed by hangings and imprisonment and wholesale transportation to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land...

The death of Old England!Infantryman Jem Stebbings returns to his East Anglian home from the Battle of Waterloo after twelve years fighting the French determined to set himself up as a husbandman and to forget the horrors of war. What he finds is an England beset by depression, the price of food soaring, mass unemployment, the population near to starving, his own village cowed by a zealous and autocratic parson, a Government that imposes draconian laws and greedy landowners intent upon enriching themselves through the enclosure of all land. Riot is their only recourse...

A mother's fight to keep her family together in wartime...1940 and the Blitz on London is at its height... bombing is daily as well as nightly. Amid it all, exhausted young mother Olive Cullen defies the bombs and the authorities to keep her family of seven sons together, even as her fickle Irish husband deserts her and goes on the run from the police and the army.Made homeless by the bombing, Olive returns to the isolated East Coast village of her birth, hoping to find peace and shelter there for herself and her large family, only to be turned away by her father and her two bullying brothers.Eventually, she finds refuge in an abandoned hovel and from there begins the fight to restore her dignity and her pride, even as others take against her...

Once Upon An Island...An elegiac tale of a defiant friendship and a doomed love affair. When runaway Richard Wigboe returns to his island home after 19 missing years, it is to await the woman he loves from whom he was separated in a Japanese civilian internment camp. Turned away by his embittered father, Ben, he finds a friend in his lonely teenage step-brother Joe Coe. Set in the wilds of Eastern England in 1947, the cast of characters includes two female artists, a half-mad eccentric landowner, a shy bachelor farmer in want of a wife and a displaced Polish soldier seeking the girl who has borne his baby.

How was power justified in late medieval Europe? What justifications did people find convincing, and why? Based around the two key intellectual movements of the fifteenth century, conciliarism in the church and humanism, this study explores the justifications for the distribution of power and authority in fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Europe. By examining the arguments that convinced people in this period, Joseph Canning demonstrates that it was almost universally assumed that power had to be justified but that there were fundamentally different kinds of justification employed. Against the background of juristic thought, Canning presents a new interpretative approach to the justifications of power through the lenses of conciliarism, humanism and law, throwing fresh light on our understanding of both conciliarists' ideas and the contribution of Italian Renaissance humanists.

This is a full-scale study of the political thought of the Italian jurist, Baldus de Ubaldis (1327-1400). It examines his treatment of universal and territorial sovereignty; his contribution to the development of the idea of the state; his theory of the sovereignty of independent city-republics; his ideas of citizenship; and his discussion of kingship and signorie.

The essays that comprise this collection test the assumption that historians may be better equipped to understand the causes of the tragic war-torn 20th century if they are able to grasp the relationship of power, violence and mass death in earlier extraordinary centuries.