Mayhem: post-war crime and violence in Britain, 1748-53
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1. Verfasser: Rogers, Nicholas (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven Yale University Press c2012
Schriftenreihe:Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
The trials of Admiral Knowles -- The sailors' return -- The sailors' revenge -- Fire from heaven: the London earthquakes of 1750 -- Riots, revels, and reprisals -- Tackling the gin craze -- Henry Fielding and social reform -- From Havana to Halifax
Through interlocking stories of duels, highway robberies smuggling, riots, binge drinking and earthquakes, Rogers captures the anxieties of a half-decade and assesses the social reforms contemporaries framed and imagined to deal with the crisis
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 258 p.)
ISBN:0300169620
0300189060
1283906503
9780300169621
9780300189063
9781283906500

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