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The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century 2nd edition
Peter Linebaugh
The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century 2nd edition
Peter Linebaugh
In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors. Rather it evidently served the more sinister purpose - for a privileged ruling class - of forcing the poor population of London to accept the criminalization of customary rights and new forms of private property.
528 pages, Illustrations, maps
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | March 17, 2006 |
ISBN13 | 9781859845769 |
Publishers | Verso Books |
Pages | 522 |
Dimensions | 132 × 199 × 40 mm · 664 g |