Peter Linebaugh

Douglas Hay

Cal Winslow

E.P. Thompson

John G. Rule

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 reality. In this new edition of a classic collection of essays, renowned social historians from Britain and America examine the gangs of criminals who tore apart English society, while a criminal law of unexampled savagery struggled to maintain stability. Douglas Hay deals with the legal system that maintained the propertied classes, and in another essay shows it in brutal action against poachers; John G. Rule and Cal Winslow tell of smugglers and wreckers, showing how these activities formed a natural part of the life of traditional communities. Together with Peter Linebaugh’s piece on the riots against the surgeons at Tyburn, and E. P. Thompson’s illuminating work on anonymous threatening letters, these essays form a powerful contribution to the study of social tensions at a transformative and vibrant stage in English history. This new edition includes a new introduction by Winslow, Hay and Linebaugh, reflecting on the turning point in the social history of crime that the book represents.

Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England

Albion's Fatal Tree

Theodore Roszak

Erik Davis

Jeffrey Kripal

John Graham

James Diego Vigil

Josef Chytry

Janferie Stone

Craig Lockwood

Ted Wells

Brian Chidester

Colette Gaiter

California's social and cultural revolution that began after WW II shaped the world as we know it today.

Art and Culture Abide Then Divide Along the California Coast

Bohemian Highways

Cal Winslow

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