CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND
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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND (ebook)

FRANK MCLYNN

$1,340.00
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Editorial:
ROUTLEDGE
ISBN:
9781136093166
Páginas:
432
Formato:
Epublication content package
Idioma:
Inglés
DRM
Si

McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a crude means of redistributing wealth?

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