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In the popular imagination, informed as it is by Hogarth, Swift, Defoe and Fielding, the eighteenth-century underworld is a place of bawdy knockabout, rife with colourful eccentrics. But the artistic portrayals we have only hint at the dark reality. In this new edition of a classic collection of essays, renowned social historians from Britain and America examine the gangs of criminals who tore apart English society, while a criminal law of unexampled savagery struggled to maintain stability. Douglas Hay deals with the legal system that maintained the propertied classes, and in another essay shows it in brutal action against poachers; John G. Rule and Cal Winslow tell of smugglers and wreckers, showing how these activities formed a natural part of the life of traditional communities. Together with Peter Linebaugh’s piece on the riots against the surgeons at Tyburn, and E. P. Thompson’s illuminating work on anonymous threatening letters, these essays form a powerful contribution to the study of social tensions at a transformative and vibrant stage in English history. This new edition includes a new introduction by Winslow, Hay and Linebaugh, reflecting on the turning point in the social history of crime that the book represents.
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DOUGLAS HAY is Professor in Law and History at York University. His most recent book is Criminal Cases on the Crown Side of Kings Bench 1740-1800. PETER LINEBAUGH is a Professor of History at the University of Toledo. His books include The London Hanged. JOHN G. RULE was Professor of History at the University of Southampton until his retirement and is the author of Albions People. E. P. THOMPSO N was an English historian whose many books include The Making of the English Working Class. CAL WINSLOW is a Fellow in Environmental Politics at UC Berkeley and Director of the Mendocino Institute and co-editor of Rebel Rank and File.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. In the popular imagination, informed as it is by Hogarth, Swift, Defoe and Fielding, the eighteenth-century underworld is a place of bawdy knockabout, rife with colourful eccentrics. But the artistic portrayals we have only hint at the dark reality. In this new edition of a classic collection of essays, renowned social historians from Britain and America examine the gangs of criminals who tore apart English society, while a criminal law of unexampled savagery struggled to maintain stability.Douglas Hay deals with the legal system that maintained the propertied classes, and in another essay shows it in brutal action against poachers; John G. Rule and Cal Winslow tell of smugglers and wreckers, showing how these activities formed a natural part of the life of traditional communities. Together with Peter Linebaugh's piece on the riots against the surgeons at Tyburn, and E. P. Thompson's illuminating work on anonymous threatening letters, these essays form a powerful contribution to the study of social tensions at a transformative and vibrant stage in English history.This new edition includes a new introduction by Winslow, Hay and Linebaugh, reflecting on the turning point in the social history of crime that the book represents. Leading historians present a fascinating collection of essays on the eighteenth century legal system and those who passed through it. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781844677160
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Paperback. Etat : Good. Albion?s Fatal Tree is one of those books that quietly lurks on university reading lists waiting to ambush unsuspecting readers with the revelation that eighteenth-century England was not, in fact, a gentle Jane Austen landscape populated entirely by tea, polite conversation and emotionally restrained people standing near hedges. Instead, according to Douglas Hay and company, it was a deeply unequal society held together partly by fear, spectacle, hanging, property law and an astonishing number of capital offences. Originally published in the great age of radical social history and reissued here by Verso in 2011, this collection became hugely influential because it asked awkward questions about crime and power that many earlier historians had politely tiptoed around. Why did England execute so many people? Why was property treated with near-religious seriousness? And why did the ruling classes become so emotionally invested in stealing sheep being potentially punishable by death? The answer, broadly speaking, is that the ?Bloody Code? was not simply a legal system but a theatre of authority. Public hangings, pardons and prosecutions all helped maintain social order in a rapidly changing society. Or, to put it less academically: eighteenth-century Britain occasionally resembled a nation attempting to solve structural inequality by threatening everybody with Tyburn. What makes the book so enduringly fascinating is the way it dismantles comforting historical myths. Crime here is not presented as a simple battle between villains and justice, but as part of a much larger struggle involving class, labour, property, authority and survival. Petty theft, poaching, smuggling and disorder suddenly become political acts, or at least political problems. The poor were not merely ?criminals.? They were also workers, tenants, labourers and people trying to exist inside an aggressively hierarchical system that often regarded them with suspicion by default. The essays themselves are dense, intelligent and gloriously argumentative in that classic left-leaning British academic tradition where footnotes feel faintly revolutionary. Readers will encounter highwaymen, transported convicts, magistrates, labour unrest and enough hanging judges to populate several gothic novels simultaneously. It is, in many ways, the ideal companion for anyone interested in the real social background behind Georgian crime history rather than the sanitised costume-drama version involving charming rogues and tasteful candlelight. There is also a wonderful irony in the title itself. ?Albion,? that poetic vision of England, here becomes a place where a teenager might theoretically face execution for stealing cloth while wealthy elites discussed liberty and civilisation over dinner. The gap between national self-image and social reality is one of the book?s great themes, and one that remains awkwardly relevant. This 2011 Verso edition carries all the reassuring signs of Serious Historical Thought. It looks exactly like the kind of book somebody reads while slowly becoming unable to watch period dramas without muttering about enclosure, labour discipline and class power. Condition is Good, meaning this copy has survived years of criminology students, radical historians, true crime enthusiasts and people discovering that Georgian England was considerably more violent and strange than they had been led to believe. A classic work of social history from Crappy Old Books, where the gallows, the archive and the second-hand bookshelf continue their long and complicated relationship. N° de réf. du vendeur 6493
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