This social history explores how the English people felt about public execution during its heyday. Drawing on letters, diaries, ballads and other documentation of the time, it analyzes responses to the scaffold at all social levels: from the crowds who gathered to watch executions; to the literary commentators such as Boswell and Byron; to judges, politicians and monarchs who decided who should die and who should be reprieved. The text also surveys the changing attitudes towards death and suffering, and demonstrates that ...
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This social history explores how the English people felt about public execution during its heyday. Drawing on letters, diaries, ballads and other documentation of the time, it analyzes responses to the scaffold at all social levels: from the crowds who gathered to watch executions; to the literary commentators such as Boswell and Byron; to judges, politicians and monarchs who decided who should die and who should be reprieved. The text also surveys the changing attitudes towards death and suffering, and demonstrates that the retreat from public hanging owed less to the growth of humane sensibilities than it did to the development of new methods of punishment and law enforcement, and the public's deepening fear of the scaffold crowd.
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Good. Very Good Dust Jacket. 1st Printing. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 634 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket. PLEASE NOTE: There is light pencil underlining in the text. It can be erased. First Edition / First Printing. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0198204132. Tiniest bit of shelfwear on DJ. No tears or rubbing.; B and w illus.; 6.5 X 1.5 X 9.5 inches; 654 pages.
I started reading this as a library book and I found it so well written by a really interesting author that I felt I had to have it to read the whole book not just the chapter my course referred me to. Now I have it for my own and I love it; the empathy with which the topics are covered and the research and how he has got enticed more deeply into his subject makes it an invaluable source on crime and punishment 18th to 19th centuries
