Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England

Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England image
ISBN-10:

0415010144

ISBN-13:

9780415010146

Author(s): MCLYNN, Frank
Released: Oct 26, 1989
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Hardcover, 440 pages
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Description:

McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a crude means of redistributing wealth?












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