Mayhem : post-war crime and violence in Britain, 1748-53 /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rogers, Nicholas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012.
Series:Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Violence > England > History > 18th century.
Violence > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
TRUE CRIME > General.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Social conditions
Violence.
Great Britain > History > George II, 1727-1760.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 18th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1727-1760 (George II)
Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 18e siècle.
England.
Great Britain.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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