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McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a crude means of redistributing wealth?
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Frank McLynn is a British journalist, historian, and biographer and the author of twenty-nine critically acclaimed books. His best-known works include biographies of Napoleon Bonapart, Robert Louis Stevenson, Carl Jung, Richard Francis Burton, and Henry Morton Stanley. His book The Jacobite Army in England was awarded the Cheltenham Prize for Literature in 1985, and he was short-listed for the 1989 McVitie's Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year in 1989. He is a graduate of Wadham College, Oxford, and London University, where he obtained his doctorate.
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"His richly detailed, carefully argued, and delightfully written book weaves innumerable individual case histories into nuanced arguments and generalizations....Specialists and general readersa like will profit from his treatment of a wide range of subjects."
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0415010144
- ISBN 13 9780415010146
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages440
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