London Mob

London Mob by Robert Shoemaker

By 1700 London was the largest city in the world, with over 500,000 inhabitants. Very weakly policed, its streets saw regular outbreaks of rioting by a mob easily stirred by economic grievances, politics or religion. If the mob vented its anger more often on property than people, eighteenth-century Londoners frequently came to blows over personal disputes in a society where men and women were quick to defend their honour. Slanging matches easily turned to fisticuffs and slights on honour were avenged in duels. In this world, where the detection and prosecution of crime was the part of the business of the citizen, punishment, whether by the pillory, whipping at a cart's tail or hanging at Tyburn, was public and endorsed by crowds. The Mob draws a fascinating portrait of the public life of the modern world's first great city.

'scholarly' The Sunday Telegraph, 'there is no doubting the vigour of the book, or the fascinating and refreshing depth of analysis' Andrew Holgate, The Sunday Times, 18 July 2004 'Shoemaker's vivid depictions of 18th-century Londoners' drink-fuelled aggression and lack of community spirit out to be read by anyone tempted to think that these are aberrations specific to recent years' Freya Johnston, The Daily Telegraph, 24 July 2004 'The London Mob is a fascinating, highly detailed analysis of a period of immense change in the history of London and Londoners Lucy Moore, The Daily Mail, 13 August 2004

ROBERT SHOEMAKER is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Prosecution and Petty Crime in London and Rural Middlesex, c. 1660-1725 and co-director of The Old Bailey Proceedings, an electronic database of all printed eighteenth-century accounts of felony trials.

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ISBN 13	9781852853730
ISBN 10	1852853735
Title	London Mob
Author	Robert Shoemaker
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2004-06-01
Number of pages	288
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