The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England

Shoemaker, Robert

ISBN 10: 1852855576 / ISBN 13: 9781852855574

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2007

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A portrait of London violence in the eighteenth century describes the economic, political, and religious conflicts that resulted in pervasive levels of crime and conflict, citing the role of everyday citizens in keeping the peace and meting out mob justice.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Robert Shoemaker is Professor of History at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, c. 1660-1725 and co-director of The Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org), a fully searchable database of all printed trial accounts from 1674 to 1834.

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Titel: The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in ...
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: As New
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