The London hanged : crime and civil society in the eighteenth century / Peter Linebaugh.
1992
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Author
Title
The London hanged : crime and civil society in the eighteenth century / Peter Linebaugh.
Published
Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Call Number
HV8699.G8 L55 1992
ISBN
0521418429
Description
xxvii, 484 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)25093132
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [442]-473) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables, Figures and Maps
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Pt. 1
Pandaemonium and Finance Capitalism, 1690-1720
Ch. 1'The Common Discourse of the Whole Nation': Jack Sheppard and the Art of Escape
7
Ch. 2'Old Mr Gory' and the Thanatocracy
42
Ch. 3Tyburnography: The Sociology of the Condemned
74
Pt. 2
The Pedagogy of the Gallows under Mercantilism, 1720-50
Ch. 4The Picaresque Proletariat During the Robinocracy
119
Ch. 5Socking, the Hogshead and Excise
153
Ch. 6'Going Upon the Accompt': Highway Robbery under the Reigns of the Georges
184
Pt. 3
Industry and Idleness in the Period of Manufacture, 1750-1776
Ch. 7The Cat Likes Cream: The Waging Hand in Five Trades
225
Ch. 8Silk Makes the Difference
256
Ch. 9If You Plead for Your Life, Plead in Irish
288
Pt. 4
The Crisis of Thanatocracy in the Era of Revolution, 1776-1800
Ch. 10The Delivery of Newgate, 6 June 1780
333
Ch. 11Ships and Chips: Technological Repression and the Origin of the Wage
371
Ch. 12Sugar and Police: The London Working Class in the 1790s
402
Bibliography
442
Index
475