Engines Of Truth: Producing Veracity In The Victorian Courtroom

During the Victorian era, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting perjury. Drawing on a broad array of archival research, Wendie Schneider chronicles this period of experimentation and how its innovations-particularly cross-examination-shaped contemporary trial procedure. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

• | Author: Wendie Ellen Schneider
• | Publisher: Yale University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 12, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 280 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 0300125666
• | ISBN-13: 9780300125665