The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century

The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century
ISBN-10
0521457580
ISBN-13
9780521457583
Category
History
Pages
484
Language
English
Published
1993
Author
Peter Linebaugh

Description

In a time characterized by increasing attempts of propertied classes to criminalize the customary rights of the working classes, the gallows at Tyburn became the dramatic focus of a struggle between the rich & the poor within a century of unparalleled growth in trade & commerce.

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