--- product_id: 292156658 title: "The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century" price: "$77.64" currency: USD in_stock: true reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.us/products/292156658-the-london-hanged-crime-and-civil-society-in-the-eighteenth store_origin: US region: United States of America --- # Data-driven socio-economic analysis Groundbreaking Marxist historiography Extensive 18th-century historical sources The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century **Price:** $77.64 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Dive deep into history’s shadowy hangings and unlock capitalism’s hidden story! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century - **How much does it cost?** $77.64 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.us](https://www.desertcart.us/products/292156658-the-london-hanged-crime-and-civil-society-in-the-eighteenth) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Contemporary relevance:** Understand the historical parallels to today’s global capitalism and its social consequences. - • **Critical Marxist perspective:** Gain insights from one of the foremost Marxist historians on crime, capital, and civil society. - • **Rich, multi-source narrative:** Dive into a masterful blend of anecdotes, statistics, and political pamphlets for a vivid historical experience. - • **Collector’s edition quality:** Used book in good condition—perfect for serious readers and history aficionados looking to own a piece of intellectual history. - • **Uncover the roots of capitalism:** Explore how 18th-century London’s hangings enforced new property laws and shaped modern economic systems. ## Overview Peter Linebaugh’s 'The London Hanged' is a seminal historical work that reveals how 18th-century public executions in London were tools of social control, criminalizing the poor to enforce emerging capitalist property laws. Combining rich archival research with a Marxist lens, this edition updates the original with responses to critics, making it essential reading for understanding the socio-economic forces that shaped modern civil society. ## Description Peter Linebaugh's groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors. Rather it evidently served the most sinister purpose-for a prvileged ruling class-of forcing the poor population of London to accept the criminalization of customary rights and the new forms of private property. Necessity drove the city's poor into inevitable conflict with the changing property laws, such that all the working-class men and women of London had good reason to fear the example of Tyburn's Triple Tree. In this new edition Peter Linebaugh reinforces his original arguments with responses to his critics based on an impressive array of historical sources. As the trend of capital punishment intensifies with the spread of global capitalism, The London Hanged also gains in contemporary relevance. Review: Violence and capital accumulation in 18th Century London - Peter Linebaugh's "The London Hanged" is an exceedingly well-done overview of the relation between proletarian crime and capital accumulation in the London boroughs of the 18th Century. Together with Marcus Rediker, Linebaugh is the primary Marxist historian of crime, political economy and civil society in this period, and his extensive research pays off - "The London Hanged" is, as the (Daily Mail!) review on the cover says, history as it should be written. Linebaugh makes much use of the records of the hanged at Tyburn, as well as popular folk-tales about gangs, escaped convicts and trade records to build a clear picture of a London where extreme poverty and extreme violence, the latter from both the wealthy leaders of state and the urban poor, went together to enable the accumulation of capital. This sinister process of hangings for stealing a few shilling on one hand and corruption, slave trade and press gangs on the other hand is well described by Linebaugh in such terms as "Tyburnography" (after Tyburn where hangings were carried out) and "Thanatocracy". The style of discussion of the subject is best described as narrative. Peter Linebaugh examines various aspects of the London life of those times in the successive chapters, blending anecdotes, statistics and jargon from those days into a powerful whole that leaves one with the impression of having been in London in those days as an investigative journalist. What additionally makes the research of this work so outstanding is the masterful way in which Linebaugh is able to use many different sorts of sources, from anonymous political pamphlets to the works of John Locke, showing the place of each in the ideology of the time and its relation to the underlying socio-economic developments. In this way he shows that historical materialism need not be a regurgitation of vague Marxist jargon, but is the most powerful tool for historical analysis of a whole society we have. From corn manipulations to Levellers, from plantation lords to famous highwaymen, from black gang leaders to the Black Act, hogsheads and tobacco theft - this book reads as an adventure story and critique of political economy in one. The only possible downsides are the rather high degree of repetition inherent in the anecdotal nature of the work, and Linebaugh's tendency to pretentious terminology. Still, much recommended for anyone with historical interest. Review: Working class history. - Info on how we the small people were cajoled into excepting the elites version of society. The intricacies of working class life played out against the law of the elites. Great read. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Images ![The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81GmhwGJWhL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Violence and capital accumulation in 18th Century London *by M***L on 2 February 2007* Peter Linebaugh's "The London Hanged" is an exceedingly well-done overview of the relation between proletarian crime and capital accumulation in the London boroughs of the 18th Century. Together with Marcus Rediker, Linebaugh is the primary Marxist historian of crime, political economy and civil society in this period, and his extensive research pays off - "The London Hanged" is, as the (Daily Mail!) review on the cover says, history as it should be written. Linebaugh makes much use of the records of the hanged at Tyburn, as well as popular folk-tales about gangs, escaped convicts and trade records to build a clear picture of a London where extreme poverty and extreme violence, the latter from both the wealthy leaders of state and the urban poor, went together to enable the accumulation of capital. This sinister process of hangings for stealing a few shilling on one hand and corruption, slave trade and press gangs on the other hand is well described by Linebaugh in such terms as "Tyburnography" (after Tyburn where hangings were carried out) and "Thanatocracy". The style of discussion of the subject is best described as narrative. Peter Linebaugh examines various aspects of the London life of those times in the successive chapters, blending anecdotes, statistics and jargon from those days into a powerful whole that leaves one with the impression of having been in London in those days as an investigative journalist. What additionally makes the research of this work so outstanding is the masterful way in which Linebaugh is able to use many different sorts of sources, from anonymous political pamphlets to the works of John Locke, showing the place of each in the ideology of the time and its relation to the underlying socio-economic developments. In this way he shows that historical materialism need not be a regurgitation of vague Marxist jargon, but is the most powerful tool for historical analysis of a whole society we have. From corn manipulations to Levellers, from plantation lords to famous highwaymen, from black gang leaders to the Black Act, hogsheads and tobacco theft - this book reads as an adventure story and critique of political economy in one. The only possible downsides are the rather high degree of repetition inherent in the anecdotal nature of the work, and Linebaugh's tendency to pretentious terminology. Still, much recommended for anyone with historical interest. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Working class history. *by A***R on 9 July 2020* Info on how we the small people were cajoled into excepting the elites version of society. The intricacies of working class life played out against the law of the elites. Great read. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 17th and 18th Century England. *by R***T on 12 August 2021* Great history about what is was like living in England in the 17th and 18th century. The lives of the common folks were constantly being imprisoned by the ruling class in a variety of ways. A tougher life cannot be imagined. Writing is skilled but very different style. Great research as part of this history. 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