The London Hanged. Cet article n’est pas disponible.The London Hanged

In 18th-century London the gallows at Tyburn were the focus of a struggle between the rich and the poor. This study shows how there was little distinction between a criminal population and the poor population of London as a whole. The meaning of property and how it changed is also examined.

Peter Linebaugh’s groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging served the purpose of forcing the poor population of London to accept the criminalization of customary rights and new forms of private property. In this new edition Peter Linebaugh reinforces his original arguments with detailed responses to his critics based on an impressive array of historical sources.