Martin Wiener
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Wiener |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiener |
| SIGNATURE | WIENER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6006-2594 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The symbol of time: Efficiency and meaning of shape stimuli drives time estimates
Bonny Ibhawoh. Imperial Justice: Africans in Empire's Court
Administrators of the British Empire lived with a tension between racial distinctions and the universalist premises of British ideals. Nowhere was this tension more persistent than in the empire's courts of law. Imperial law was continually pulled between a localism, whose flexibility gave room for tolerance of native culture and, also, European racism, and a universalism which conversely constrained both. Bonny Ibhawoh has written a most valuabl…
Comparative Histories of Crime
This book aims to both reflect and take forward current thinking on comparative and cross-national and cross-cultural aspects of the history of crime. Its content is wide-ranging: some chapters discuss the value of comparative approaches in aiding understanding of comparative history, and providing research directions for the future; others address substantive issues and topics that will be of interest to those with interests in both history and …
The Idea of “Colonial Legacy” and the Historiography of Empire
An Empire on Trial: Race, Murder, and Justice under British Rule, 1870–1935
An Empire on Trial is the first book to explore the issue of interracial homicide in the British Empire during its height – examining these incidents and the prosecution of such cases in each of seven colonies scattered throughout the world. It uncovers and analyzes the tensions of empire that underlay British rule and delves into how the problem of maintaining a liberal empire manifested itself in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centurie…
Race, Class and Maritime Authority in Late Victorian England: The Surprising Cases of Charles Arthur (1888) and Bagwahn Jassiwara (1891)
How have the boundaries between acceptable use of ‘force’ and unacceptable ‘violence’ shifted over time? There is a social institution devoted to clarifying and publicizing these boundaries — the criminal trial. One route, therefore, to a better understanding of the process of boundary shift is to closely examine such trials, particularly when something about them initially ‘surprises’ the historian. This chapter seeks to do just this, in regard …
Evolution and History Writing: A Comment on J. Carter Wood, ‘The Limits of Culture?’
Keywords: historiographyevolutionary psychologyviolencefamilymacrohistoryheredity
Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness, and Criminal Justice in Victorian England
An examination of the treatment of serious violence by men against women in nineteenth-century England. During Victoria's reign the criminal law came to punish such violence more systematically and heavily, while propagating a new, more pacific ideal of manliness. Yet this apparently progressive legal development called forth strong resistance, not only from violent men themselves but, from others who drew upon discourses of democracy, humanitari…
English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850–1980
England was the world's first great industrial nation. Yet the English have never been comfortable with industrialism. Drawing upon a wide array of sources, Martin Wiener explores the English ambivalence to modern industrial society. His work reveals a pervasive middle- and upper-class frame of mind hostile to industrialism and economic growth. From the middle of the nineteenth century to the present, this frame of mind shaped a broad spectrum of…
Homicide and ‘Englishness’: Criminal Justice and National Identity in Victorian England
One venue for the formation of national identity that has received comparatively little attention in recent years, is that of the courtroom. In particular, the treatment of serious crimes in Victorian England involved a good deal of reference to notions of Englishness. In the course of their routine work, Victorian criminal courts promulgated particular and generally coherent views as to how ‘an Englishman’, as opposed to a foreigner, was expecte…
Alice Arden to Bill Sikes: Changing Nightmares of Intimate Violence in England, 1558–1869
Let us begin with two scenes of intimate violence. First, consider a man, a woman, and three male “guests” in a well-furnished locked room. Suddenly one of the men strikes the host, and another stabs him, and he falls to the floor. At this moment the woman steps forward (she had previously tried to poison him), seizes the knife, and plunges it home, crying, “Take this for hind'ring Mosby's love and mine.” Alice Arden, with the help of her new lov…
Judges v. Jurors: Courtroom Tensions in Murder Trials and the Law of Criminal Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century England
Although it is well known that the criminal law's administration in nineteenth-century England altered decisively, little important change has been noted in the substantive criminal law. Yet change there was, but produced less through legislation (as was much administrative change) or even appeals court rulings than through everyday criminal justice practice. In particular, the effective meanings of legal terms central to the prosecution of homic…
The sad story of George hall: Adultery, murder and the politics of mercy in mid‐Victorian England 1
Treating "Historical" Sources as Literary Texts: Literary Historicism and Modern British History
New Women vs. Old Men: Sexual danger and ‘social narratives’ in later Victorian England
City of Lhadful Delight is a milestone in Victorian scholarship. Probably more than any other single work, it brings the new currents of thought transforming many areas of human inquiry to bear on the writing of nineteenthcentury history. Walkowitz takes poststructuralist insights into the 'textuality' of history seriously, and has revamped the approach to historical inquiry and description underlying her first book, Prostitution and Victm'un Soc…
The Unloved State: Twentieth-Century Politics in the Writing of Nineteenth-Century History
“Who loves the state these days?” Frances Cairncross rhetorically asked in The Times Literary Supplement at the height of the Thatcher era. “People have become more cynical,” she went on, “about the central tenet of socialism: the concept of a wise and beneficent State, representing the best interests of the community at large.” The skepticism about the state as a provider of national well-being which Cairncross was referring to was of course not…
Books behind Bars: The Role of Books, Reading, and Libraries in British Prison Reform, 1701-1911
Preface Introduction Agents of Reform: Beliefs and Initiatives Dr Bray's Newgate Associates Investigative Reporters: Howard, Neild, and Gurney Elizabeth Fry Reform Societies Prison Chaplains Prison Governors Prison Inspectors: Frederic Hill Prison Commissioners and Directors of Convict Prisons Subordinate Officers and Their Libraries Penal Institutions and Systems Local Prisons National Prisons Convict Ships and Convict Settlements The Hulks The …
Philosophers and Kings: Education for Leadership in Modern England
Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law, and Policy in England, 1830- 1914
Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law and Policy in England, 1830-1914
Under the Skin of English Life
IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND, then the workshop of the world and the first industrial nation, there was a yawning gap between the objective conditions of social life and their subjective recuperation. In the face of rapid change and seemingly overnight development, older forms of inter-class rela tions proved, in many places, to be a sheet-anchor of stability and continuity. The helplessness of the working class, adrift in chaos, is nowhere bett…
English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850-1980
English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850-1980
Some Leaders of Opinion and Economic Growth in Britain, 1918-74
Contemporary Britain is a nation that has clearly lost its oncefamed economic dynamism. From the workshop of the world, Britain has gradually become 'a Luddite's paradise', to quote Edward Heath in 1970. Yet it has also attracted the admiration of foreigners for its comfortable, easy-going lifestyle.' Both national characteristics have histories, which indeed may be closely related. They may, in fact, be two fruits of the same tree, a tree that t…
The Changing Image of William Cobbett
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The Idea of “Colonial Legacy” and the Historiography of Empire
Judges v. Jurors: Courtroom Tensions in Murder Trials and the Law of Criminal Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century England
Although it is well known that the criminal law's administration in nineteenth-century England altered decisively, little important change has been noted in the substantive criminal law. Yet change there was, but produced less through legislation (as was much administrative change) or even appeals court rulings than through everyday criminal justice practice. In particular, the effective meanings of legal terms central to the prosecution of homic…
The sad story of George hall: Adultery, murder and the politics of mercy in mid‐Victorian England 1
Alice Arden to Bill Sikes: Changing Nightmares of Intimate Violence in England, 1558–1869
Let us begin with two scenes of intimate violence. First, consider a man, a woman, and three male “guests” in a well-furnished locked room. Suddenly one of the men strikes the host, and another stabs him, and he falls to the floor. At this moment the woman steps forward (she had previously tried to poison him), seizes the knife, and plunges it home, crying, “Take this for hind'ring Mosby's love and mine.” Alice Arden, with the help of her new lov…
The Unloved State: Twentieth-Century Politics in the Writing of Nineteenth-Century History
“Who loves the state these days?” Frances Cairncross rhetorically asked in The Times Literary Supplement at the height of the Thatcher era. “People have become more cynical,” she went on, “about the central tenet of socialism: the concept of a wise and beneficent State, representing the best interests of the community at large.” The skepticism about the state as a provider of national well-being which Cairncross was referring to was of course not…
Evolution and History Writing: A Comment on J. Carter Wood, ‘The Limits of Culture?’
Keywords: historiographyevolutionary psychologyviolencefamilymacrohistoryheredity
Homicide and ‘Englishness’: Criminal Justice and National Identity in Victorian England
One venue for the formation of national identity that has received comparatively little attention in recent years, is that of the courtroom. In particular, the treatment of serious crimes in Victorian England involved a good deal of reference to notions of Englishness. In the course of their routine work, Victorian criminal courts promulgated particular and generally coherent views as to how ‘an Englishman’, as opposed to a foreigner, was expecte…
Treating "Historical" Sources as Literary Texts: Literary Historicism and Modern British History
Books behind Bars: The Role of Books, Reading, and Libraries in British Prison Reform, 1701-1911
Preface Introduction Agents of Reform: Beliefs and Initiatives Dr Bray's Newgate Associates Investigative Reporters: Howard, Neild, and Gurney Elizabeth Fry Reform Societies Prison Chaplains Prison Governors Prison Inspectors: Frederic Hill Prison Commissioners and Directors of Convict Prisons Subordinate Officers and Their Libraries Penal Institutions and Systems Local Prisons National Prisons Convict Ships and Convict Settlements The Hulks The …
Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law and Policy in England, 1830-1914
English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850-1980
Some Leaders of Opinion and Economic Growth in Britain, 1918-74
Contemporary Britain is a nation that has clearly lost its oncefamed economic dynamism. From the workshop of the world, Britain has gradually become 'a Luddite's paradise', to quote Edward Heath in 1970. Yet it has also attracted the admiration of foreigners for its comfortable, easy-going lifestyle.' Both national characteristics have histories, which indeed may be closely related. They may, in fact, be two fruits of the same tree, a tree that t…
Between Two Worlds: The Political Thought of Graham Wallas
The Changing Image of William Cobbett
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Some Leaders of Opinion and Economic Growth in Britain, 1918-74
Contemporary Britain is a nation that has clearly lost its oncefamed economic dynamism. From the workshop of the world, Britain has gradually become 'a Luddite's paradise', to quote Edward Heath in 1970. Yet it has also attracted the admiration of foreigners for its comfortable, easy-going lifestyle.' Both national characteristics have histories, which indeed may be closely related. They may, in fact, be two fruits of the same tree, a tree that t…
English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850-1980
English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850-1980
Under the Skin of English Life
IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND, then the workshop of the world and the first industrial nation, there was a yawning gap between the objective conditions of social life and their subjective recuperation. In the face of rapid change and seemingly overnight development, older forms of inter-class rela tions proved, in many places, to be a sheet-anchor of stability and continuity. The helplessness of the working class, adrift in chaos, is nowhere bett…
Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law, and Policy in England, 1830- 1914
Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law and Policy in England, 1830-1914
Books behind Bars: The Role of Books, Reading, and Libraries in British Prison Reform, 1701-1911
Preface Introduction Agents of Reform: Beliefs and Initiatives Dr Bray's Newgate Associates Investigative Reporters: Howard, Neild, and Gurney Elizabeth Fry Reform Societies Prison Chaplains Prison Governors Prison Inspectors: Frederic Hill Prison Commissioners and Directors of Convict Prisons Subordinate Officers and Their Libraries Penal Institutions and Systems Local Prisons National Prisons Convict Ships and Convict Settlements The Hulks The …
Philosophers and Kings: Education for Leadership in Modern England
The Unloved State: Twentieth-Century Politics in the Writing of Nineteenth-Century History
“Who loves the state these days?” Frances Cairncross rhetorically asked in The Times Literary Supplement at the height of the Thatcher era. “People have become more cynical,” she went on, “about the central tenet of socialism: the concept of a wise and beneficent State, representing the best interests of the community at large.” The skepticism about the state as a provider of national well-being which Cairncross was referring to was of course not…
New Women vs. Old Men: Sexual danger and ‘social narratives’ in later Victorian England
City of Lhadful Delight is a milestone in Victorian scholarship. Probably more than any other single work, it brings the new currents of thought transforming many areas of human inquiry to bear on the writing of nineteenthcentury history. Walkowitz takes poststructuralist insights into the 'textuality' of history seriously, and has revamped the approach to historical inquiry and description underlying her first book, Prostitution and Victm'un Soc…
Treating "Historical" Sources as Literary Texts: Literary Historicism and Modern British History
Judges v. Jurors: Courtroom Tensions in Murder Trials and the Law of Criminal Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century England
Although it is well known that the criminal law's administration in nineteenth-century England altered decisively, little important change has been noted in the substantive criminal law. Yet change there was, but produced less through legislation (as was much administrative change) or even appeals court rulings than through everyday criminal justice practice. In particular, the effective meanings of legal terms central to the prosecution of homic…
The sad story of George hall: Adultery, murder and the politics of mercy in mid‐Victorian England 1
Alice Arden to Bill Sikes: Changing Nightmares of Intimate Violence in England, 1558–1869
Let us begin with two scenes of intimate violence. First, consider a man, a woman, and three male “guests” in a well-furnished locked room. Suddenly one of the men strikes the host, and another stabs him, and he falls to the floor. At this moment the woman steps forward (she had previously tried to poison him), seizes the knife, and plunges it home, crying, “Take this for hind'ring Mosby's love and mine.” Alice Arden, with the help of her new lov…
Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness, and Criminal Justice in Victorian England
An examination of the treatment of serious violence by men against women in nineteenth-century England. During Victoria's reign the criminal law came to punish such violence more systematically and heavily, while propagating a new, more pacific ideal of manliness. Yet this apparently progressive legal development called forth strong resistance, not only from violent men themselves but, from others who drew upon discourses of democracy, humanitari…
English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850–1980
England was the world's first great industrial nation. Yet the English have never been comfortable with industrialism. Drawing upon a wide array of sources, Martin Wiener explores the English ambivalence to modern industrial society. His work reveals a pervasive middle- and upper-class frame of mind hostile to industrialism and economic growth. From the middle of the nineteenth century to the present, this frame of mind shaped a broad spectrum of…
Homicide and ‘Englishness’: Criminal Justice and National Identity in Victorian England
One venue for the formation of national identity that has received comparatively little attention in recent years, is that of the courtroom. In particular, the treatment of serious crimes in Victorian England involved a good deal of reference to notions of Englishness. In the course of their routine work, Victorian criminal courts promulgated particular and generally coherent views as to how ‘an Englishman’, as opposed to a foreigner, was expecte…
Race, Class and Maritime Authority in Late Victorian England: The Surprising Cases of Charles Arthur (1888) and Bagwahn Jassiwara (1891)
How have the boundaries between acceptable use of ‘force’ and unacceptable ‘violence’ shifted over time? There is a social institution devoted to clarifying and publicizing these boundaries — the criminal trial. One route, therefore, to a better understanding of the process of boundary shift is to closely examine such trials, particularly when something about them initially ‘surprises’ the historian. This chapter seeks to do just this, in regard …
Evolution and History Writing: A Comment on J. Carter Wood, ‘The Limits of Culture?’
Keywords: historiographyevolutionary psychologyviolencefamilymacrohistoryheredity
An Empire on Trial: Race, Murder, and Justice under British Rule, 1870–1935
An Empire on Trial is the first book to explore the issue of interracial homicide in the British Empire during its height – examining these incidents and the prosecution of such cases in each of seven colonies scattered throughout the world. It uncovers and analyzes the tensions of empire that underlay British rule and delves into how the problem of maintaining a liberal empire manifested itself in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centurie…
Comparative Histories of Crime
This book aims to both reflect and take forward current thinking on comparative and cross-national and cross-cultural aspects of the history of crime. Its content is wide-ranging: some chapters discuss the value of comparative approaches in aiding understanding of comparative history, and providing research directions for the future; others address substantive issues and topics that will be of interest to those with interests in both history and …
The Idea of “Colonial Legacy” and the Historiography of Empire
Bonny Ibhawoh. Imperial Justice: Africans in Empire's Court
Administrators of the British Empire lived with a tension between racial distinctions and the universalist premises of British ideals. Nowhere was this tension more persistent than in the empire's courts of law. Imperial law was continually pulled between a localism, whose flexibility gave room for tolerance of native culture and, also, European racism, and a universalism which conversely constrained both. Bonny Ibhawoh has written a most valuabl…
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