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Robert Shoemaker is Professor of History at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, c. 1660-1725 and co-director of The Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org), a fully searchable database of all printed trial accounts from 1674 to 1834.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. By 1700 London was the largest city in the world, with over 500,000 inhabitants. Very weakly policed, its streets saw regular outbreaks of rioting by a mob easily stirred by economic grievances, politics or religion. If the mob vented its anger more often on property than people, eighteenth-century Londoners frequently came to blows over personal disputes. In a society where men and women were quick to defend their honour, slanging matches easily turned to fisticuffs and slights on honour were avenged in duels. In this world, where the detection and prosecution of crime was the part of the business of the citizen, punishment, whether by the pillory, whipping at a cart's tail or hanging at Tyburn, was public and endorsed by crowds. The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England draws a fascinating portrait of the public life of the modern world's first great city. By 1700, London was the largest city in the world, with over 500,000 inhabitants. Very weakly policed, its streets saw regular outbreaks of rioting by a mob easily stirred by economic grievances, politics or religion. This title draws a portrait of the public life of the modern world's first great city. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781852855574
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