The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth CenturyVerso, 2003 - 492 páginas "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 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. 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." -- Publisher. |
Contenido
CHAPTER Two Old Mr Gory and the Thanatocracy | 42 |
The Sociology of | 74 |
Industry and Idleness in the Period of Manufacture 175076 | 76 |
The Pedagogy of the Gallows under Mercantilism | 113 |
CHAPTER FIVE Socking the Hogshead and Excise | 153 |
Highway | 184 |
The Waging | 225 |
CHAPTER EIGHT Silk Makes the Difference | 256 |
CHAPTER NINE If You Plead for Your Life Plead | 288 |
The Crisis of Thanatocracy in the Era | 327 |
Revolution 17761800 | 352 |
CHAPTER TFN The Delivery of Newgate 6 June 1780 333 | 371 |
The London | 402 |
AFTERWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION | 443 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century Peter Linebaugh Vista previa limitada - 2020 |
The London Hanged: Crime And Civil Society In The Eighteenth Century Peter Linebaugh Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |
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