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Lost Londons : change, crime, and control in the capital city, 1550-1660 / Paul Griffiths.
Series: Cambridge social and cultural histories ; [13]Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: xvii, 544 p. : maps ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780521174114 (pbk.) :
- 0521174112 (pbk.) :
- HV6950.L7 G85 2010
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Summary: The book offers a great deal of interesting information on anti-social behaviour and its policing in London, some of it surprising.' Southern History Society '... a welcome addition to the literature on urban growth, on how changing definitions of crime and criminality may reflect larger trends in understanding that growth, and, especially, on the transformation of London into a modern multifaceted metropolis{u2026} 'This rich and lively book will be required reading for anyone working on the history of crime, London, or early modern towns more generally. It is also to be recommended for its careful use of the words of hundreds [of] Londoners otherwise lost from sight and sound{u2026} 'This ought to be compulsory reading for undergraduates who want to imagine the feel, the smell, the jumble and the make-do-and-mend of Elizabethan London.
Introduction: rhetorics and records; Part I. Change: 1. Troubled times; 2. Mapping troubles; 3. Streets; Part II. Crime: 4. Crime: worlds; 5. Crime: words; Part III. Control: 6. Court days; 7. Bodies; 8. Policing: people and policy; 9. Policing: night battles; 10. Policing: process and prosecution; 11. Policing: knowledge; Conclusion.
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The book offers a great deal of interesting information on anti-social behaviour and its policing in London, some of it surprising.' Southern History Society '... a welcome addition to the literature on urban growth, on how changing definitions of crime and criminality may reflect larger trends in understanding that growth, and, especially, on the transformation of London into a modern multifaceted metropolis{u2026} 'This rich and lively book will be required reading for anyone working on the history of crime, London, or early modern towns more generally. It is also to be recommended for its careful use of the words of hundreds [of] Londoners otherwise lost from sight and sound{u2026} 'This ought to be compulsory reading for undergraduates who want to imagine the feel, the smell, the jumble and the make-do-and-mend of Elizabethan London.
Introduction: rhetorics and records; Part I. Change: 1. Troubled times; 2. Mapping troubles; 3. Streets; Part II. Crime: 4. Crime: worlds; 5. Crime: words; Part III. Control: 6. Court days; 7. Bodies; 8. Policing: people and policy; 9. Policing: night battles; 10. Policing: process and prosecution; 11. Policing: knowledge; Conclusion.
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Originally published: 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-513) and index.
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