The London hanged : crime and civil society in the eighteenth century
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0140132627
ISBN 13
9780140132625
LCCN
HV 8699 .L75
Category
United Kingdom
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Publication Year
1991
Publisher
Pages
xxvii, 484 pages
Subject
Forms of punishment
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Abstract
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 privileged 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. - from Amazon
Description
Contents:
Part One: Pandemonium and Finance Capitalism, 1690-1720 -- 'The Common Discourse of the Whole Nation': Jack Sheppard and the Art of Escape -- 'Old Mr. Glory' and the Thanatocracy -- Tyburnography: The Sociology of the Condemned -- Part Two: The Pedagogy of the Gallows under Mercantilism, 1720-50 -- The Picaresque Proletariat During the Robinocracy -- Socking, the Hogshed and Excise -- 'Going Upon the Accompt': Highway Robbery under the reigns of the Georges -- Part Three: Industry and Idleness in the Period of manufacture, 1750-1776 -- the Cat Likes Cream: The waging hand in Five Trades -- Silk Makes the Difference -- If You Plead for Your Life, Plead in Irish -- Part Four: The Crisis of Thanatocracy in the Era of Revolution, 1776-1800 -- The Delivery of Newgate, 6 June 1780 -- Ships and Chips: Technological repression and the Origin of the Wage -- Sugar and Police: The London Working Class in the 1790s.
Part One: Pandemonium and Finance Capitalism, 1690-1720 -- 'The Common Discourse of the Whole Nation': Jack Sheppard and the Art of Escape -- 'Old Mr. Glory' and the Thanatocracy -- Tyburnography: The Sociology of the Condemned -- Part Two: The Pedagogy of the Gallows under Mercantilism, 1720-50 -- The Picaresque Proletariat During the Robinocracy -- Socking, the Hogshed and Excise -- 'Going Upon the Accompt': Highway Robbery under the reigns of the Georges -- Part Three: Industry and Idleness in the Period of manufacture, 1750-1776 -- the Cat Likes Cream: The waging hand in Five Trades -- Silk Makes the Difference -- If You Plead for Your Life, Plead in Irish -- Part Four: The Crisis of Thanatocracy in the Era of Revolution, 1776-1800 -- The Delivery of Newgate, 6 June 1780 -- Ships and Chips: Technological repression and the Origin of the Wage -- Sugar and Police: The London Working Class in the 1790s.
Biblio Notes
Includes biographical references and index.
Item has been generously donated by Louis A. Knafla.
Item has been generously donated by Louis A. Knafla.
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