Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime And Society In Eighteenth-Century England
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner.
Albion's Fatal Tree is a landmark work of social history that uncovers the brutal mechanisms of crime, punishment, and class power in eighteenth-century England. A collaboration between leading historians Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaugh, John Rule, E.P. Thompson, and Cal Winslow, the book argues that the English legal system — and its gallows in particular — functioned as a primary instrument of ruling-class control over the labouring poor. Through a series of richly researched essays, the authors chronicle the lives of poachers, smugglers, thieves, and rioters, illuminating the everyday resistance of ordinary people against a property-obsessed legal order. Written with both scholarly rigour and passionate conviction, the work presents a radical reinterpretation of Georgian England that remains essential reading in the fields of legal, social, and labour history.
Author: Hay, Linebaugh, Rule, Thompson And Winslow
Format: Paperback
Genre: British & Irish history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner.
Albion's Fatal Tree is a landmark work of social history that uncovers the brutal mechanisms of crime, punishment, and class power in eighteenth-century England. A collaboration between leading historians Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaugh, John Rule, E.P. Thompson, and Cal Winslow, the book argues that the English legal system — and its gallows in particular — functioned as a primary instrument of ruling-class control over the labouring poor. Through a series of richly researched essays, the authors chronicle the lives of poachers, smugglers, thieves, and rioters, illuminating the everyday resistance of ordinary people against a property-obsessed legal order. Written with both scholarly rigour and passionate conviction, the work presents a radical reinterpretation of Georgian England that remains essential reading in the fields of legal, social, and labour history.