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• Title:Albion's fatal tree : crime and society in eighteenth-century England / Douglas Hay [and others].
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Hay, Douglas.
  Linebaugh, Peter.
  Rule, John, 1944-2011.
  Thompson, E. P. (Edward Palmer), 1924-1993.
  Winslow, Calvin.
  
• Published/Created:London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2011.
  

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  • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: HV6943 .A435 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Crime--England--History--18th century.
  
• Edition:Rev. ed.
  
• Description:352 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
  
• Summary:In the popular imagination, informed as it is by Hogarth, Swift, Defoe and Fielding, the eighteenth-century underworld is a place of bawdy knockabout, rife with colourful eccentrics. But the artistic portrayals we have only hint at the dark reality. In this new edition of a classic collection of essays, renowned social historians from Britain and America examine the gangs of criminals who tore apart English society, while a criminal law of unexampled savagery struggled to maintain stability. Douglas Hay deals with the legal system that maintained the propertied classes, and in another essay shows it in brutal action against poachers; John G. Rule and Cal Winslow tell of smugglers and wreckers, showing how these activities formed a natural part of the life of traditional communities. Together with Peter Linebaugh's piece on the riots against the surgeons at Tyburn, and E. P. Thompson's illuminating work on anonymous threatening letters, these essays form a powerful contribution to the study of social tensions at a transformative and vibrant stage in English history. -- Back cover.
  
• Notes:"First published by Pantheon Books 1975"--Title page verso.
  Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  
• ISBN:9781844677160 (pbk.)
  1844677168 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: [1]. Douglas Hay: Property, Authority and the Criminal Law
  [2]. Peter Linebaugh: The Tyburn Riot Against the Surgeons
  [3]. Cal Winslow: Sussex Smugglers
  [4]. John G. Rule: Wrecking the Coastal Plunder
  [5]. Douglas Hay: Poaching and the Game Laws on Cannock Chase
  [6]. E. P. Thompson: The Crime of Anonymity.