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London Lives - Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800 (Hardcover)
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London Lives - Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800 (Hardcover)
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London Lives is a fascinating new study which exposes, for the
first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century
thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen. It charts the
experiences of hundreds of thousands of Londoners who found
themselves submerged in poverty or prosecuted for crime, and
surveys their responses to illustrate the extent to which plebeian
Londoners influenced the pace and direction of social policy.
Calling upon a new body of evidence, the book illuminates the lives
of prison escapees, expert manipulators of the poor relief system,
celebrity highwaymen, lone mothers and vagrants, revealing how they
each played the system to the best of their ability in order to
survive in their various circumstances of misfortune. In their acts
of desperation, the authors argue that the poor and criminal
exercised a profound and effective form of agency that changed the
system itself, and shaped the evolution of the modern state.
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