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Mayhem : post-war crime and violence in Britain, 1748-53
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Mayhem : post-war crime and violence in Britain, 1748-53 / Nicholas Rogers.
ISBN
9780300169621 (cloth : alk. paper)
0300169620 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.
Physical Description
xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 24, 2013
Series
The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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