This text is a collection of historical accounts of 18th-century roguery, criminality and skull-duggery. It features a diverse gallery of criminals, ranging from infamous thieves and murderers, whores and highway men, pirates and fraudsters. With extracts from popular journalism and biographical accounts, this volume presents the 18th-century criminal underworld in the idiomatic language of the time.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Produkt-Hinweis
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Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 129 mm
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978-0-14-100346-7 (9780141003467)
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Lucy Moore is a freelance historian. She is the author of The Thieves' Opera and a biography of Lord Hervey, Amphibious Thing (Sept 2000). She is currently working on a biography of Richard II for Viking.
The Hogarthian underworld; murderers; prostitutes; thieves; pirates; sex offenders; highwaymen; confidence tricksters; a miscellany. Appendix: the Black Act.
