Engines of Truth
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 exa...
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Yale University Press
2021
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| Online Access: | http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32811 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39471 https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32811/1/604618.pdf |