Linebaugh Peter:
The London Hanged
Crime And Civil Society In The Eighteenth Century
Verso Books (United Kingdom), 2006
Paperback, 528 pages
Size: 229x152 mm
ISBN: 9781859845769
ISBN-10: 1859845762
List price: £11.99
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The London Hanged
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.

