Mayhem - Post-War Crime and Violence in Britain, 1748-53

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Rogers is distinguished research professor of history at York University! Toronto. He is the author or co-author of several books! including! most recently! Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night and The Press Gang: Naval Impressment and Its Opponents in Georgian Britain. Klappentext After the end of the War of Austrian Succession in 1748! thousands of unemployed and sometimes unemployable soldiers and seamen found themselves on the streets of London ready to roister the town and steal when necessary. In this book! the author explores the moral panic associated with this rapid demobilization. Zusammenfassung After the end of the War of Austrian Succession in 1748! thousands of unemployed and sometimes unemployable soldiers and seamen found themselves on the streets of London ready to roister the town and steal when necessary. In this book! the author explores the moral panic associated with this rapid demobilization.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Rogers, Rogers Nicholas
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.01.2013
• EAN: 9780300169621
• ISBN: 978-0-300-16962-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History; The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History; The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-C
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History