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

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

Peter Linebaugh

522 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction crime history informative slow-paced
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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 was not simply a form of punishing transgressors.Rather it evidently se...

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