New analysis and interpretation of law and legal institutions in the "long eighteenth century". Law and legal institutions were of huge importance in the govern

Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents an

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

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