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 crim...

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1. Verfasser:	Hitchcock, Tim 1957- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2015
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1700-1800 Sozialgeschichte 1690-1800 Geschichte Crime / England / London / History / 18th century Poor / England / London / Social conditions / 18th century Criminals / England / London / Social conditions / 18th century Criminal justice, Administration of / England / London / History / 18th century Public welfare / England / London / History / 18th century Kriminalität Armut London (England) / Social conditions / 18th century London
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Zusammenfassung:	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
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Dec 2015)
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xvi, 461 pages)
ISBN:	9781139177979
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9781139177979