The London hanged : crime and civil society in the eighteenth century /
"In eighteenth-century London the gallows at Tyburn was the dramatic focus of a struggle between the rich and the poor. Most of the London hanged were executed for property crimes, and the chief lesson that the gallows had to teach was: 'Respect private property'. The executions took...
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Cambridge [England] ; New YorkN. Y., USA :
Cambridge University Press,
1992.
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