The execution and the English people, 1770-1868

Hanging people for petty crimes as well as grave, the Bloody Penal Code was at its most active between 1770 and 1830. Some 7,000 men and women were executed on public scaffolds, watched by crowds of thousands

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Autor principal: Gatrell, V.A.C.
Altres autors: V.A.C. Gatrell
Idioma:Undetermined
English
Publicat: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 1994
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Sumari:Hanging people for petty crimes as well as grave, the Bloody Penal Code was at its most active between 1770 and 1830. Some 7,000 men and women were executed on public scaffolds, watched by crowds of thousands
Descripció física:xix, 634 p.
ill.
24 cm
ISBN:0198204132
9780198204138