Books : The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century
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by: Peter Linebaugh
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.942
EAN: 9781859845769
ISBN: 1859845762
Label: Verso
Manufacturer: Verso
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: February 16, 2006
Publisher: Verso
Sales Rank: 310151
Studio: Verso
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New edition with a new preface and afterword.
Peter 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.
In this new edition Peter Linebaugh reinforces his original arguments with detailed responses to his critics based on an impressive array of historical sources.
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Rating:  - A very great work
Peter Linebaugh was a student and colleague of E.P. Thompson whose work on 18th century and early 19th century England I had thought unsurpassed until I read The London Hanged. Linebaugh's book is a VERY great work of history in which he analyzes the "thanatocracy of Williamite and Augustan Britain" Except for the afterward (a bit confusing) it is felicitously written (a tribute to Thompson's influence perhaps?) and its intricate arguments linking money, property and the eath penalty are illustrated ... Read More
Rating: - Violence and capital accumulation in 18th Century London
Peter Linebaugh's "The London Hanged" is an exceedingly well-done overview of the relation between proletarian crime and capital accumulation in the London boroughs of the 18th Century. Together with Marcus Rediker, Linebaugh is the primary Marxist historian of crime, political economy and civil society in this period, and his extensive research pays off - "The London Hanged" is, as the (Daily Mail!) review on the cover says, history as it should be written.
Linebaugh makes much use of the ... Read More
Rating: - Eeeeeeeech
It will leave you utterly appalled. Giving a thorough account of the British justice system during the mid-eighteenth century, the Tyburn era, Linebaugh sees the law through many lenses: the sailor's, the butcher's, the tailor's, the prostitute, etc.
I used to live with a historian, where I had to read him his homework while he drove, so I can tell you right here and how that this is a GREAT history book.
Rating:  - Contemporary academic historiography at its worst
If you enjoy reading the sort of books about which someone would write "Death by hanging was also a weapon the privileged ruling class utilized in order to strip the indigent populace into accepting the outlawing of customary rights and newly emerging forms of private property,"; if you believe that events are caused by impersonal social/class/race/gender/whatever forces then this book is for you.
If, on the other hand, you believe events are result from the decisions of individual flawed men ... Read More
Rating: - Death by hanging was a weapon of the privileged ruling class
The London Hanged: Crime And Civil Society In The Eighteenth Century by Peter Linebaugh (Assistant Professor of History, University of Toledo) is a fascinating and informative study of eighteenth century London, in which hanging was much more than capital punishment for criminal transgressors. Death by hanging was also a weapon the privileged ruling class utilized in order to strip the indigent populace into accepting the outlawing of customary rights and newly emerging forms of private property. The new property ... Read More
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