The hanging tree : execution and the English people, 1770-1868
Gatrell, Vic, 1941-1996
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Hanging people for petty crimes as well as grave, the Bloody Penal Code was at its most active between 1770 and 1830. This is the first study to explore what a wide range of people felt about the terrors the Code inflicted.
Main title:
The hanging tree : execution and the English people, 1770-1868 / V.A.C. Gatrell.
Author:
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Collation:
xix, 634 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 1994.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780192853325 (pbk)
Dewey class:
364.660942364.660941
Local class:
364.660942
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1394776