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London Lives exposes, for the first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen. In charting the experiences of London's criminal and poor inhabitants, the book surveys their responses to show us how their daily acts of desperation helped to shape the evolution of the modern state.
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'Reveals how the cunning, courage and sheer resourcefulness of some of eighteenth-century London's poorest residents forced the city's authorities to overhaul its justice and welfare systems.' BBC History Magazine
'A compelling read and there is a huge amount of meticulously researched information in here.' Your Family Tree
'A brilliant analysis of an outstanding resource.' Who Do You Think You Are?
'Shocking in its depiction of survival and desperation ... this book shows how the criminal underclass helped shape the English justice system.' Hallie Rubenhold, 'Books of the Year', BBC History Magazine
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London Lives is a fascinating new study which exposes, for the first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen. It charts the experiences of hundreds of thousands of Londoners who found themselves submerged in poverty or prosecuted for crime, and surveys their responses to illustrate the extent to which plebeian Londoners influenced the pace and direction of social policy. Calling upon a new body of evidence, the book illuminates the lives of prison escapees, expert manipulators of the poor relief system, celebrity highwaymen, lone mothers and vagrants, revealing how they each played the system to the best of their ability in order to survive in their various circumstances of misfortune. In their acts of desperation, the authors argue that the poor and criminal exercised a profound and effective form of agency that changed the system itself, and shaped the evolution of the modern state.
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- VerlagCambridge University Press
- Erscheinungsdatum2015
- ISBN 10 1107639948
- ISBN 13 9781107639942
- EinbandTapa blanda
- Anzahl der Seiten478
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London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690â"1800
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Cambridge University Press, 2016
ISBN 10: 1107639948
ISBN 13: 9781107639942
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Extensively revised for the second edition, this Reader includes a new extract from Beowulf as well as a new Beginning Old English section for newcomers to the Old English language, strengthening student support. Extensive notes, annotation and glossing make this an accessible and scholarly introduction to Old English. Artikel-Nr. 9781107639942
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