The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth CenturyPeter 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..."Linebaugh examines how the meaning of 'property' changed substantially during a century of unparalleled growth in trade and commerce, analyzes the increasing attempts of the propertied classes to criminalize 'customary rights - prerequisites of employment that the laboring poor depended upon for survival - and suggests that property-owners, by their exploitation of the emergent working class, substantially determined the nature of crime, and that crime, in turn, shaped the development of the economic system"--Jacket. |
Contents
CHAPTER TWO Old Mr Gory and the Thanatocracy | 42 |
The Sociology of | 74 |
The Pedagogy of the Gallows under Mercantilism | 113 |
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