Albion's fatal tree : crime and society in eighteenth-century England

Type

Book

Authors

Hay, Douglas

Linebaugh, Peter

Rule, John G.

Thompson, E. P.

Winslow, Cal

ISBN 13

9780713909753

LCCN

KD 3962 .H39

Tags

History, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, Crime, 18th century, Famous Trials, United Kingdom Famous Trials, United Kingdom Crime and Punishment, Crime and punishment, Hanging, 1700-1799

Abstract

"...We were equally concerned with criminality itself, the offences, the offenders and the popular myths of offenders (such a highwaymen and smugglers) as part-hero, part dreadful moral exemplars. These questions, we became convinced, were central to unlocking the meanings of eighteenth-century social history."- Preface

Description

Contents:
Property, authority and the criminal law / Douglas Hay -- The Tyburn riot against the surgeons / Peter Linebaugh -- Sussex smugglers / Cal Winslow -- Wrecking and coastal plunder / John G. Rule -- Poaching and the game laws on Cannock Chase / Douglas Hay -- The crime of anonymity / E.P. Thompson -- Appendix: a sampler of letters.

Biblio Notes

Includes index.
Donated by Graham Price.

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