Mayhem
Subtitle: post-war crime and violence in Britain, 1748-53
By: Nicholas Rogers
Series: The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780300169621
Subjects: Social conditions; Violence; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The trials of Admiral Knowles; title: The sailors' return; title: The sailors' revenge; title: Fire from heaven: the London earthquakes of 1750; title: Riots, revels, and reprisals; title: Tackling the gin craze; title: Henry Fielding and social reform; title: From Havana to Halifax.