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392 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780415010146
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 26 October 1989
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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392 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780415010146
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 26 October 1989
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?