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Peter Linebaugh: The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century.(Book review)
Peter Linebaugh The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century Verso, 2006, 492 pp. (second edition) ISBN 1-85984576-2 (pbk) 11.99 [pounds]
Coming as it does at a time of international and domestic conflict and disputes over law--over competing definitions of 'justice' and 'right'--the reprinting by Verso of this exemplary work of historical materialism in the British Marxist historian tradition is most welcome. Peter Linebaugh, a student and comrade of E.P. Thompson, has revisited here the political and economic transformations that were necessary to change feudalism into capitalism, which were not simply a question of regime or law and enforcement substitution, since these alterations happened on a piecemeal basis over centuries. The main story in the 'history from below' approach is the protest and resistance that the proto-working class was engaged in during its struggles for survival.
The book begins with an exploration of 'the relationship between the organised death of living labour (capital punishment) and the oppression of the living by dead…
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...For the third offense, the culprit was taken to the gallows and publicly hanged. In his book The London Hanged (1992), Peter Linebaugh notes that those hanged for capital offenses in eighteenth century London were overwhelmingly from the...
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...their writings. You'll never look the same upon Dickens' Master Charles Bates again! --K.L. Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged Verso, 2006 How the prolific use of capital punishment in eighteenth-century England was instrumental...
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...the law and of changes in punishment in England, sometimes obscures as much as it illuminates. Both Peter Linebaugh's The London Hanged (London, 1991) and V.A.C. Gatrell's The Hanging Tree (Oxford, 1994) are massive in scope...
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...percolated through to more mainstream histories of the eighteenth century and is incorporated in such works as Peter Linebaugh's The London Hanged (1991), Linda Colley's Britons (1992) and John Brewer's The Pleasures of the Imagination (1997...
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...influence on the way that criminality was constructed, even when considering the impact of eugenic theory. Peter Linebaugh's The London Hanged, which is the most clearly and outspokenly Marxist monograph dealing with the history of the criminal...
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