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The London Hanged

Crime And Civil Society In The Eighteenth Century

by Peter Linebaugh
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In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors. Rather it evidently served the more sinister purpose - for a privileged ruling class - of forcing the poor population of London to accept the criminalization of customary rights and new forms of private property.

The London Hanged

Crime And Civil Society In The Eighteenth Century

by Peter Linebaugh

Property Description
ISBN: 9781859845769
Publisher: VERSO BOOKS
Release Date: March of 2006
Language: English
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 522
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > History > History of Europe
EAN: 9781859845769

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Peter Linebaugh

Peter Linebaugh (n. 1941) é um historiador norte-americano com um extenso trabalho de investigação sobre a história popular e laboral britânica e o colonialismo atlântico. Aluno de E. P. Thompson, foi editor da revista Zerowork, membro do Midnight Notes Collective, e entre as suas obras destacam-se The London Hanged (1991), The Magna Carta Manifesto (2009) e Red Round Globe Hot Burning (2021).

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