Dana Rabin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5653259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dana Rabin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dana |
| FAMILY NAME | Rabin |
| SIGNATURE | RABIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Slavery, Law, and Race in England and its New World Empire
This paper responds to Holly Brewer's article “Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its New World Empire.” Brewer traces a process begun by Charles I, in collaboration with his appointed judges, to legalize the buying and selling of people in England and its Empire. Brewer's work is a much-needed reconstruction of the legal precedents that transformed people into chattel, enabling the business of slavery in the seventeenth and eightee…
Joel Peter Eigen. Mad-Doctors in the Dock
The intersection of mental illness, crime, and law has fascinated observers of the courts, among them legal and medical historians and sociologists. Heinous crimes, often involving brutal murders of family members by those closest to them, left in their wakes communities asking why and looking for a motive or a reason. For legal historians, these extreme cases allow for an examination of the question of criminal intent, or mens rea, and the ways …
David LEMMINGS. Law and Government in England during the Long Eighteenth Century
In a Country of Liberty
Journal Article ‘In a Country of Liberty?’: Slavery, Villeinage and the Making of Whiteness in the Somerset Case (1772) Get access Dana Rabin Dana Rabin History Dept, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dana Rabin is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she teaches courses in British history, global history, and the history of crime. Her current project from which this article is drawn examines…
Seeing Jews and Gypsies in 1753
In the written accounts detailing the ‘scandals of 1753’, the Jewish Naturalization Bill and the Elizabeth Canning case, and in the images produced in their wake, Jews and Gypsies are depicted as both utterly different and terrifyingly similar to the English, their proximity and apparent indistinguishability from the English the source of their threat, the mutual imprinting or syncretic combination the source of the greatest anxiety. While the pa…
Drunkenness and Responsibility for Crime in the Eighteenth Century
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Searching for the Self in Eighteenth-Century English Criminal Trials,1730-1800
Research Article| January 01 2003 Searching for the Self in Eighteenth-Century English Criminal Trials,1730-1800 Dana Y. Rabin Dana Y. Rabin Indiana State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 85–106. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-27-1-85 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Dana Y. Rabin; Searching for the Self in Eighteenth-Century Engl…
The Most Solitary of Afflictions
Drunkenness and Responsibility for Crime in the Eighteenth Century
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Slavery, Law, and Race in England and its New World Empire
This paper responds to Holly Brewer's article “Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its New World Empire.” Brewer traces a process begun by Charles I, in collaboration with his appointed judges, to legalize the buying and selling of people in England and its Empire. Brewer's work is a much-needed reconstruction of the legal precedents that transformed people into chattel, enabling the business of slavery in the seventeenth and eightee…
In a Country of Liberty
Journal Article ‘In a Country of Liberty?’: Slavery, Villeinage and the Making of Whiteness in the Somerset Case (1772) Get access Dana Rabin Dana Rabin History Dept, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dana Rabin is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she teaches courses in British history, global history, and the history of crime. Her current project from which this article is drawn examines…
The Most Solitary of Afflictions
Searching for the Self in Eighteenth-Century English Criminal Trials,1730-1800
Research Article| January 01 2003 Searching for the Self in Eighteenth-Century English Criminal Trials,1730-1800 Dana Y. Rabin Dana Y. Rabin Indiana State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 85–106. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-27-1-85 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Dana Y. Rabin; Searching for the Self in Eighteenth-Century Engl…
Drunkenness and Responsibility for Crime in the Eighteenth Century
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
Seeing Jews and Gypsies in 1753
In the written accounts detailing the ‘scandals of 1753’, the Jewish Naturalization Bill and the Elizabeth Canning case, and in the images produced in their wake, Jews and Gypsies are depicted as both utterly different and terrifyingly similar to the English, their proximity and apparent indistinguishability from the English the source of their threat, the mutual imprinting or syncretic combination the source of the greatest anxiety. While the pa…
In a Country of Liberty
Journal Article ‘In a Country of Liberty?’: Slavery, Villeinage and the Making of Whiteness in the Somerset Case (1772) Get access Dana Rabin Dana Rabin History Dept, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dana Rabin is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she teaches courses in British history, global history, and the history of crime. Her current project from which this article is drawn examines…
David LEMMINGS. Law and Government in England during the Long Eighteenth Century
Joel Peter Eigen. Mad-Doctors in the Dock
The intersection of mental illness, crime, and law has fascinated observers of the courts, among them legal and medical historians and sociologists. Heinous crimes, often involving brutal murders of family members by those closest to them, left in their wakes communities asking why and looking for a motive or a reason. For legal historians, these extreme cases allow for an examination of the question of criminal intent, or mens rea, and the ways …
Slavery, Law, and Race in England and its New World Empire
This paper responds to Holly Brewer's article “Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its New World Empire.” Brewer traces a process begun by Charles I, in collaboration with his appointed judges, to legalize the buying and selling of people in England and its Empire. Brewer's work is a much-needed reconstruction of the legal precedents that transformed people into chattel, enabling the business of slavery in the seventeenth and eightee…
History (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Art (2 works)