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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 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 an...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781859845769
ISBN-10: 1859845762
Publication Date: 2/16/2006
Pages: 528
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Publisher: Verso
Book Type: Paperback
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