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Engines of truth : producing veracity in the Victorian courtroom
- Title
- Engines of truth : producing veracity in the Victorian courtroom / Wendie Ellen Schneider.
- Author
- Schneider, Wendie Ellen
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
- ©2015
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Details
- Description
- x, 265 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting perjury. Strikingly original and drawing on a broad array of archival research, Wendie Schneider's examination of the Victorian courtroom charts this period of experimentation and how its innovations shaped contemporary trial procedure. Blending legal, social, and colonial history, she shines new light on cross-examination, the most enduring product of this time and the "greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth."
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-258) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-1542
- ISBN
- 9780300125665
- 0300125666
- OCLC
- 929776763
- Author
- Schneider, Wendie Ellen, author.
- Title
- Engines of truth : producing veracity in the Victorian courtroom / Wendie Ellen Schneider.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-258) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-1542