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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 New edition with a new preface and afterword. Peter Linebaughs 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 an... more »d new forms of private property. In this new edition Peter Linebaugh reinforces his original arguments with detailed responses to his critics based on an impressive array of historical sources.« less