The London Mob - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The London Mob write by Robert Shoemaker. This book was released on 2007-05-10. The London Mob available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By 1700 London was the largest city in the world, with over 500,000 inhabitants. Very weakly policed, its streets saw regular outbreaks of rioting by a mob easily stirred by economic grievances, politics or religion. If the mob vented its anger more often on property than people, eighteenth-century Londoners frequently came to blows over personal disputes. In a society where men and women were quick to defend their honour, slanging matches easily turned to fisticuffs and slights on honour were avenged in duels. In this world, where the detection and prosecution of crime was the part of the business of the citizen, punishment, whether by the pillory, whipping at a cart's tail or hanging at Tyburn, was public and endorsed by crowds. The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England draws a fascinating portrait of the public life of the modern world's first great city.
The London Mob
The London Mob - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The London Mob write by Robert Brink Shoemaker. This book was released on 2004-01-01. The London Mob available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A portrait of London violence in the eighteenth century describes the economic, political, and religious conflicts that resulted in pervasive levels of crime and conflict, citing the role of everyday citizens in keeping the peace and meting out mob justice.
The London Mob
The London Mob - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The London Mob write by Robert Shoemaker. This book was released on 2007-08-01. The London Mob available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A portrait of London violence in the eighteenth century describes the economic, political, and religious conflicts that resulted in pervasive levels of crime and conflict, citing the role of everyday citizens in keeping the peace and meting out mob justice.
The London Mob. Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England
The London Mob. Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The London Mob. Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England write by . This book was released on 2007. The London Mob. Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Gangs of London
Gangs of London - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gangs of London write by Brian Mcdonald. This book was released on . Gangs of London available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Lifts the lid on London gangs of the last two centuries' THE WEEKLY NEWS 'Lays bare the truth behind the capital's underworld far before the Krays and the Richardsons became well known' THE WHARF 'Incredible real-life tales' SOUTHWARK NEWS Long before the Kray twins, London was plagued by gang warfare as vicious as anything that was to come. From the 19th century onwards, violent mobs fought pitched battles for territory and local pride. The Bethnal Green Boys hunted Hackney's Broadway Boys, Clerkenwell took on Somers Town, the Red Hands prowled Deptford and the Silver Hatchets terrorised Islington, while the police and judiciary seemed powerless to stop them. The first-ever history of these intriguing street mobs traces them from Jonathan Wild, the archetype for Dickens' Fagin, to sprawling super-gangs like the Titanic and the Elephant Boys. It tells the bloody story of the racecourse wars, when Darby Sabini and Billy Kimber slugged it out for control of gambling pitches, and of such big hitters as George Sage, the guv'nor of Camden Town, Dodger Mullins and the McDonald brothers. Eventually these local 'firms' spawned notorious gangsters such as Jack Spot, Billy Hill and Johnny Carter, who carved out organised crime rackets across the capital. Gangs of London is a riveting journey through the dark underbelly of one of the world's great cities.
