Hard Men: The English and Violence Since 1750 - Couverture rigide

Emsley, Prof. Clive

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1852854081 ISBN 13 : 9781852854089

Editeur : Hambledon Continuum, 2005

Synopsis

The garrotters who terrified London in 1862, the Irish Fenians who carried our terrorist bombings in London and the gangs who dominated parts of the East End in the early years of the twentieth century all used violence to achieve their ends. Hard Men is a survey of the changing pattern of violent behaviour, public and private, in England over two hundred and fifty years. People in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were certainly more tolerant of domestic violence and rough communal sports and celebrations. Contentious public meetings, notably elections, could end in serious injuries; the state and the police exercised control by violent means where they deemed it necessary; and there were of course violent crimes committed by men, women and children. While the exercise of violence reflected changes in society and attitudes, it is difficult to point to a golden age in the past without it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

CLIVE EMSLEY is Professor of History and Co-Director of the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research at the Open University. His books include Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900, The English Police: A Political and Social History and Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hambledon Continuum
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852854081
• ISBN 13: 9781852854089
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible