Author: Charles JohnsonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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A General and True History of the Lives and Actions of the most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, etc
Author: Charles JohnsonA General and True History of the Lives and Actions of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Pirates,&c. Interspers'd with Several Remarkable Trials of the Most Notorious Malefactors, at the Sessions-House in the Old Baily, London,&c. By Capt. James Macklecan
Author: Daniel DefoeCatalogue of Valuable Books & Manuscripts
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of John Dent, Esq
Author: John DentPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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The Lives & Exploits of the Most Noted Highwaymen, Rogues and Murderers
Author: Stephen BasdeoPublisher: Grub Street Publishers
ISBN: 1526713187
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
A fascinating historical survey of the world’s most infamous outlaws. For as long as human societies have existed there have always been people who have transgressed the laws of their respective societies. It seems that whenever new laws are made, certain people find ways to break them. This book will introduce you to some of the most notorious figures, from all parts of the world, who have committed heinous crimes such as highway robbery, murder, and forgery. Beginning with Bulla Felix, the Roman highwayman, this book traces the careers of medieval outlaws such as Robin Hood and Adam Bell. Early modern murderers also make an appearance, such as Sawney Beane, whose story inspired the cult horror movie The Hills Have Eyes. Learn also about the crimes and daring escapes of Jack Sheppard, an eighteenth-century criminal who escaped from prison on several occasions, and find out if the “gentlemanly” highwayman Dick Turpin was truly a gentleman. This book also includes an appendix of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thieves’ cant, as well as several historical poems, songs, and ballads relating to the subjects discussed, and the work is prefaced with an essay highlighting the significance of crime literature throughout history.
Colonel Jack
Author: Daniel DefoePublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770485139
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Long dismissed by critics as a novel of merely historical interest, Colonel Jack is one of Daniel Defoe’s most entertaining, revealing, and complex works. It is the supposed autobiography of an English gentleman who begins life as a child of the London streets. He and his brothers are brought up as pickpockets and highwaymen, but Jack seeks to improve himself. Kidnapped and taken to America, he becomes first a slave, then an overseer on plantations in Maryland. Jack’s story is one of dramatic turns of fortune that ultimately lead to a life of law-abiding prosperity as a plantation owner. Historical appendices relate to eighteenth-century Virginia and Maryland and to contemporary crime, punishment, and imprisonment.
The Invisible Hook
Author: Peter LeesonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400829860
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating! The Invisible Hook takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson uncovers the hidden economics behind pirates' notorious, entertaining, and sometimes downright shocking behavior. Why did pirates fly flags of Skull & Bones? Why did they create a "pirate code"? Were pirates really ferocious madmen? And what made them so successful? The Invisible Hook uses economics to examine these and other infamous aspects of piracy. Leeson argues that the pirate customs we know and love resulted from pirates responding rationally to prevailing economic conditions in the pursuit of profits. The Invisible Hook looks at legendary pirate captains like Blackbeard, Black Bart Roberts, and Calico Jack Rackam, and shows how pirates' search for plunder led them to pioneer remarkable and forward-thinking practices. Pirates understood the advantages of constitutional democracy--a model they adopted more than fifty years before the United States did so. Pirates also initiated an early system of workers' compensation, regulated drinking and smoking, and in some cases practiced racial tolerance and equality. Leeson contends that pirates exemplified the virtues of vice--their self-seeking interests generated socially desirable effects and their greedy criminality secured social order. Pirates proved that anarchy could be organized. Revealing the democratic and economic forces propelling history's most colorful criminals, The Invisible Hook establishes pirates' trailblazing relevance to the contemporary world.
To Feast on Us as Their Prey
Author: Rachel B. HerrmannPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610756568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Winner, 2020 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award, Edited Volume Long before the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia, colony and its Starving Time of 1609–1610—one of the most famous cannibalism narratives in North American colonial history—cannibalism played an important role in shaping the human relationship to food, hunger, and moral outrage. Why did colonial invaders go out of their way to accuse women of cannibalism? What challenges did Spaniards face in trying to explain Eucharist rites to Native peoples? What roles did preconceived notions about non-Europeans play in inflating accounts of cannibalism in Christopher Columbus’s reports as they moved through Italian merchant circles? Asking questions such as these and exploring what it meant to accuse someone of eating people as well as how cannibalism rumors facilitated slavery and the rise of empires, To Feast on Us as Their Prey posits that it is impossible to separate histories of cannibalism from the role food and hunger have played in the colonization efforts that shaped our modern world.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates ...: Homer-Marx. 1876
Author: Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
The collections of the Advocates Library, with the exception of its legal books and manuscripts, were given by the Advocates to the National Library of Scotland in 1925.
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Author: John Herbert SlaterPublisher:
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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