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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| Language: | Undetermined English |
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Oxford,New York
Oxford University Press
1994
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| Institutions: | Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh |
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | xix, 634 p. ill. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0198204132 9780198204138 |