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Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England [PDF ebook]

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Mc Lynn 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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Format PDF ● Pages 432 ● ISBN 9781136093081 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5300227 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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