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

The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century - Paperback

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The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century - Paperback

The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century - Paperback

by Peter Linebaugh
$46.03
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Book Overview

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.
ISBN9781859845769
Author Peter Linebaugh
PublisherVerso
GenreHistory and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2009
Edition2
LanguageENG- English
Pages522
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Peter Linebaugh

Peter Linebaugh is a historian and a professor at the University of Toledo. He is the author of The London Hanged, The Magna Carta Manifesto, and Stop, Thief!, and the coauthor of Albion's Fatal Tree and The Many Headed Hydra. His articles have appeared in publications that include CounterPunch, the New Left Review, New York University Law Review, Radical History Review, and Social History. He lives in Toledo, Ohio.

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