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Insomnia (2012)
Book Chapter
French, R. (2012). Insomnia. Sketches, Dispatches, Hull Tales and Ballads (0 - 0). Kingston Press

A short story about an academic who has just given a paper on Writers and Insomnia being taken on a harrowing journey by a cab driver who suffers from insomnia.

Introduction to Dee Brown's "Folktales of the Native American" (2012)
Book Chapter
Porter, J. (2012). Introduction to Dee Brown's "Folktales of the Native American". In Folktales of the Native American. London: Folio Society

An up to the minute introduction to one of the great classics of American ethnography reissued and beautifully illustrated by the Folio Society.

Elsewhere (2012)
Book Chapter
French, R. (2012). Elsewhere. Under Travelling Skies, departures from Larkin (0 - 0). Kingston Press

Short story about John Lennon meeting Philip Larkin in a motorway service cafe.

Between the 'Metaphysics of the Stone Age' and the 'Brave New World': H.L.A. Hart on the Law's Assumptions about Human Nature (2012)
Book Chapter
Cserne, P. (2012). Between the 'Metaphysics of the Stone Age' and the 'Brave New World': H.L.A. Hart on the Law's Assumptions about Human Nature. In M. Jovanovi?, & B. Spai? (Eds.), Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy in the 21st Century: Reassessing Legacies (71 - 89). Frankfurt: Peter Lang Pub Inc

This paper analyses H.L.A. Hart’s views on the epistemic character of the law’s assumptions about human behaviour, as articulated in Causation in the Law and Punishment and Responsibility. Hart suggests that the assumptions behind legal doctrines typ... Read More about Between the 'Metaphysics of the Stone Age' and the 'Brave New World': H.L.A. Hart on the Law's Assumptions about Human Nature.

A Dismal Story? Britain, the Gurkhas and the Partition of India, 1945-1948 (2012)
Book Chapter
Omissi, D. (2012). A Dismal Story? Britain, the Gurkhas and the Partition of India, 1945-1948. In A. Jeffreys, & P. Rose (Eds.), The Indian Army, 1939–47: Experience and Development (195 - 214). Aldershot: Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315556772

Broadly speaking this is indeed what happened, with one striking exception – the Gurkhas. No Gurkha regiments were ‘transferred’ to the Indian Army in 1947, for the simple reason that they already were part of the Indian Army. Instead, four of the In... Read More about A Dismal Story? Britain, the Gurkhas and the Partition of India, 1945-1948.

Christopher Hewetson: sculpture, commerce, and sociability in Rome (2012)
Book Chapter
Yarrington, A. (2012). Christopher Hewetson: sculpture, commerce, and sociability in Rome. In M. Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui, & S. Wilcox (Eds.), The English prize: the Capture of the Westmorland: an episode of the Grand Tour (106-114). Yale University Press

The volume is the catalogue of the exhibition held at the Ashmolean Museum and the Yale Center for British Art 2012. This chapter is concerned with the portrait sculpture by Christopher Hewetson, part of the Westmorland's cargo captured in 1779, whic... Read More about Christopher Hewetson: sculpture, commerce, and sociability in Rome.

Biographical note (2012)
Book Chapter
Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2012). Biographical note. Enoch at 100: a re-evaluation of the life, politics and philosophy of Enoch Powell (xxv - xxix). Biteback Publishing

After the silk stockings ; After Abigail finds the letter (2012)
Book Chapter
McKay, K. (2012). After the silk stockings ; After Abigail finds the letter. Sketches, dispatches, Hull tales and ballads (84 - 93). Kingston Press

Two short stories. Humber Writers celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens. Special commission for the Humber Mouth Literature Festival 2012.  

Being an interpreter in conflict (2012)
Book Chapter
Tobia, S., & Baker, C. (2012). Being an interpreter in conflict. Languages at war: policies and practices of language contacts in conflict (201 - 221). Palgrave Macmillan

Fraternization (2012)
Book Chapter
Footitt, H., & Baker, C. (2012). Fraternization. Languages at war: policies and practices of language contacts in conflict (139 - 164). Palgrave Macmillan

Civilian interpreting in military conflicts (2012)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2012). Civilian interpreting in military conflicts. Languages at war: policies and practices of language contacts in conflict (184 - 200). Palgrave Macmillan

Frameworks for understanding (2012)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2012). Frameworks for understanding. Languages at war: policies and practices of language contacts in conflict (37 - 53). Palgrave Macmillan

State crime: a dialectical view (2012)
Book Chapter
Green, P., & Ward, T. (2012). State crime: a dialectical view. In M. Maguire, R. Morgan, & R. Reiner (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of criminology (717-740). (5th). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/he/9780199590278.003.0024

This chapter, which examines state crime, which includes genocide, war crimes, torture, police violence, and ‘grand corruption’ (the ruling elite's organised plunder of national resources, first proposes a definition that views state crime as a form... Read More about State crime: a dialectical view.