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Albion's fatal tree : crime and society in eighteenth-century England / Douglas Hay ... [et al.].
- Title
- Albion's fatal tree : crime and society in eighteenth-century England / Douglas Hay ... [et al.].
- Publication
- New York : Pantheon Books, c1975.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HV6943 .A54 1975 | Off-site | |
| Text | Request in advance | HV6943 .A54 1975 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Hay, Douglas
- Description
- 352 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Explores the contrasts between the genteel, aristocratic side of 18th century British society and criminal elements characterized by raucous public hangings marked by insubordination and riot.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Property, authority and the criminal law / Doughlas Hay -- The Tyburn Riot against the surgeons / Peter Linebaugh -- Sussex smugglers / Cal Winslow -- Wrecking and coastal plunder / John G. Rule -- Poaching and the game laws on Cannock Chase -- The crime of anonymity / E.P. Thompson.
- ISBN
- 0394471202 0394730852
- LCCN
- ^^^75023256^//r91
- OCLC
- 1532024
- SCSB-9899780
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library