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Review: Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century EnglandUser Review - Shelley - GoodreadsThis book is a reprint of some very important essays in the legal and social history of the 18th century. They range from wrecking law to anonymous letters to smuggling to surgeons' riots. If you dig ... Read full review Review: Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century EnglandUser Review - Richard Spilman - GoodreadsMy favorite history of the bizarre eighteenth century attitude toward crime in England. We all "know" that tens of thousands of people must have been executed during the eighteenth century, since ... Read full review Related books
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