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The London Hanged - Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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The London Hanged - Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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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 served the
most sinister purpose-for a prvileged ruling class-of forcing the
poor population of London to accept the criminalization of
customary rights and the new forms of private property. Necessity
drove the city's poor into inevitable conflict with the changing
property laws, such that all the working-class men and women of
London had good reason to fear the example of Tyburn's Triple Tree.
In this new edition Peter Linebaugh reinforces his original
arguments with responses to his critics based on an impressive
array of historical sources. As the trend of capital punishment
intensifies with the spread of global capitalism, The London Hanged
also gains in contemporary relevance.
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