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The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century
The London Hanged Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Peter Linebaugh
Peter Linebaugh's groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging served the purpose of forcing the poor population of London to accept the criminalization of customary rights and new forms of private property. — In this new edition P...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521457583
ISBN-10: 0521457580
Publication Date: 8/27/1993
Pages: 484
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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