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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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Pandaemonium and Finance Capitalism, 1690-1720. Ch. 1. 'The Common Discourse of the Whole Nation': Jack Sheppard and the Art of Escape. Ch. 2. 'Old Mr Gory' and the Thanatocracy. Ch. 3. Tyburnography: The Sociology of the Condemned
- pt. 2. The Pedagogy of the Gallows under Mercantilism, 1720-50. Ch. 4. The Picaresque Proletariat During the Robinocracy. Ch. 5. Socking, the Hogshead and Excise. Ch. 6. 'Going Upon the Accompt': Highway Robbery under the Reigns of the Georges
- pt. 3. Industry and Idleness in the Period of Manufacture, 1750-1776. Ch. 7. The Cat Likes Cream: The Waging Hand in Five Trades. Ch. 8. Silk Makes the Difference. Ch. 9. If You Plead for Your Life, Plead in Irish
- pt. 4. The Crisis of Thanatocracy in the Era of Revolution, 1776-1800. Ch. 10. The Delivery of Newgate, 6 June 1780. Ch. 11. Ships and Chips: Technological Repression and the Origin of the Wage. Ch. 12. Sugar and Police: The London Working Class in the 1790s.