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The Hanging Tree - Execution and the English People 1770-1868 (Paperback, Revised) Loot Price: R2,946

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The Hanging Tree - Execution and the English People 1770-1868 (Paperback, Revised): V. A. C. Gatrell

The Hanging Tree - Execution and the English People 1770-1868 (Paperback, Revised)

V. A. C. Gatrell

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Bernard Cornwell recommends this account of capital punishment in England between 1771 and 1868. It is one of those books which illuminate forgotten corners of our history, its research is deeply impressive and Gatrell's refusal to be objective is refreshing. The cover, a detail from a drawing by Gericault of an English hanging, is as shocking as some of the contents. (Kirkus UK)

Hanging people for petty crimes as well as grave, the Bloody Penal Code was at its most active between 1770 and 1830. Some 7,000 men and women were executed on public scaffolds, watched by crowds of thousands.

This acclaimed and prize-winning study is the first to explore what a wide range of people felt about these ceremonies. To analyse responses to the scaffold at all social levels, V. A. C. Gatrell draws on letters, diaries, ballads, broadsides, and images, as well as on poignant appeals for mercy which, until now, have been largely neglected by historians. Panoramic in range, scholarly in method, and compelling in style and in argument, this is one of those rare histories which both shift our sense of the past and speak powerfully to the present.

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Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 1996
First published:	November 1996
Authors:	V. A. C. Gatrell (University Lecturer and Fellow)
Dimensions:	234 x 155 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	656
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-285332-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Promotions
LSN:	0-19-285332-5
Barcode:	9780192853325