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Londra Idamlari

Pages
544
Published
2015
Language
Turkish

Synopsis

Peter Linebaugh's 'The London Hanged' explores the lives and deaths of ordinary people executed in 18th-century London. This book delves into the social and economic conditions that led to their fates, offering a unique perspective on the history of crime, punishment, and resistance among the working class. It examines how the gallows became a site of both state power and popular protest, revealing the complex interplay between law, labor, and liberty in a rapidly changing city.

About the author

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Peter Linebaugh

Peter Linebaugh is an American Marxist historian who specializes in British history, Irish history, labor history, and the history of the colonial Atlantic. He is a member of the Midnight Notes Collective. Source: Peter Linebaugh on Wikipedia (Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0).