Full name: The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Peter Linebaugh Year: 1991 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Mystery, Crime Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781859845769 1859845762

Peter Linebaugh's groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors. Rather it evidently served the most sinister purpose--for a prvileged ruling class--of forcing the poor population of London to accept the criminalization of customary rights and the new forms of private property. Necessity drove the city's poor into inevitable conflict with the changing property laws, such that all the working-class men and women of London had good reason to fear the example of Tyburn's Triple Tree. In this new edition Peter Linebaugh reinforces his original arguments with responses to his critics based on an impressive array of historical sources. As the trend of capital punishment intensifies with the spread of global capitalism, The London Hanged also gains in contemporary relevance. Similar books: Dr. Johnson's London by Liza Picard 1700 by Maureen Waller Georgian London: Into the Streets by Lucy Inglis The London Monster by Jan Bondeson London in the Eighteenth Century by Jerry White The Blackest Streets by Sarah Wise Restoration London by Liza Picard Underworld London by Catharine Arnold London by Roy Porter Albion's Fatal Tree by Douglas Hay City of Laughter by Vic Gatrell The Victorian City by Judith Flanders City of Sin by Catharine Arnold Elizabeth's London by Liza Picard Bright Young People by D. J. Taylor The House on Garibaldi Street by Isser Harel The Victorian Underworld by Kellow Chesney The Magna Carta Manifesto by Peter Linebaugh Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann Low Life by Luc Sante