Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England by Peter Linebaugh, Douglas Hay, E.P. Thompson

Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England

Peter Linebaugh, Douglas Hay, E.P. Thompson

402 pages first pub 1975 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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In the popular imagination, informed as it is by Hogarth, Swift, Defoe and Fielding, the eighteenth-century underworld is a place of bawdy knockabout, rife with colourful eccentrics. But the artistic portrayals we have only hint at the dark realit...

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