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The London Mob - Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England (Paperback, New edition)
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The London Mob - Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England (Paperback, New edition)
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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 "London Mob: Violence and
Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England" draws a fascinating
portrait of the public life of the modern world's first great city.
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