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London Mob - Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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London Mob - Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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By 1700 London was the largest city in the world, with over 500,000
inhabitants. Very weakly policed, its streets saw regular outbreaks
of rioting by a mob easily stirred by economic grievances, politics
or religion. If the mob vented its anger more often on property
than people, eighteenth-century Londoners frequently came to blows
over personal disputes in a society where men and women were quick
to defend their honour. Slanging matches easily turned to
fisticuffs and slights on honour were avenged in duels. In this
world, where the detection and prosecution of crime was the part of
the business of the citizen, punishment, whether by the pillory,
whipping at a cart's tail or hanging at Tyburn, was public and
endorsed by crowds. The Mob draws a fascinating portrait of the
public life of the modern world's first great city.
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