The London hanged : crime and civil society in the eighteenth century / Peter Linebaugh.

London : Verso, 2003.

2nd ed.

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Capital punishment -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century.

Crime -- England -- History -- 18th century.

Social control -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century.

Capital punishment -- History.

Criminals -- History.

Law -- History.

Social history.

Justice, Administration of -- History.

Economics -- History.

England -- Social conditions -- 18th century.

England -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.

Part 1. Pandaemonium and finance capitalism, 1690-1720: 1. The common discourse of the whole nation: Jack Sheppard and the art of escape

2. Old Mr Gory and the Thanatocracy

3. Tyburnography : the sociology of the condemned

Part 2. The pedagogy of the gallows under mercantilism, 1720-50: 4. The picaresque proletariat during the Robinocracy

5. Socking, the hogshead and excise

6. Going upon the accompt: highway robbery under the reigns of the Georges

Part 3. Industry and idleness in the period of manufacture, 1750-76: 7. The cat likes cream : the waging hand in five trades

8. Silk makes the difference

9. If you plead for your life, plead in Irish

Part 4. The crisis of Thanatocracy in the era of revolution, 1776-1800: 10. The delivery of Newgate, 6 June 1780

11. Ships and chips : technological repression and the origin of the wage

12. Sugar and police : the London working class in the 1790s.

Includes bibliography and index.

1859846386

xxix, 492 p. : ill.