
The London Hanged
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Rather it evidently served the most sinister purpose-for a prvileged ruling class-of forcing the poor population of London to accept the criminalization of customary rights and the new forms of private property. Necessity drove the city's poor into inevitable conflict with the changing property laws, such that all the working-class men and women of London had good reason to fear the example of Tyburn's Triple Tree.
In this new edition Peter Linebaugh reinforces his original arguments with responses to his critics based on an impressive array of historical sources. As the trend of capital punishment intensifies with the spread of global capitalism, The London Hanged also gains in contemporary relevance.
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- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables, Figures and Maps
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Introduction
- Part One: Pandaemonium and Finance Capitalism 1690-1720
- Chapter One: 'The Common Discourse of the Whole Nation': Jack Sheppard and the Art of Escape
- Chapter Two: 'Old Mr Gory' and the Thanatocracy
- Chapter Three: Tyburnography: The Sociology of the Condemned
- Part Two: The Pedagogy of the Gallows under Mercantilism, 1720-50
- Chapter Four: The Picaresque Proletariat During the Robinocracy
- Chapter Five: Socking, the Hogshead and excise
- Chapter Six: 'Going upon the accompt': Highway Robbery under the Reigns of the Georges
- Part Three: Industry and Idleness in the Period of Manufacture, 1750-76
- Chapter Seven: The Cat Likes Cream: The Waging Hand in Five Trades
- Chapter Eight: Silk Makes the Difference
- Chapter Nine: If You Plead for Your Life, Plead in Irish
- Part Four: The Crisis of Thanatocracy in the Era of Revolution, 1776-1800
- Chapter Ten: The Delivery of Newgate, 6 June 1780
- Chapter Eleven: Ships and Chips: Technological Repression and the Origin of the Wage
- Chapter Twelve: Sugar and Police: The London Working Class in the 1790s
- Notes
- Afterword to the Second Edition
- Bibliography
- Index
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