Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 258 pages)
,
illustrations
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300169620
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0300189060
,
1283906503
,
9780300169621
,
9780300189063
,
9781283906500
Serie:
The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
Inhalt:
Through interlocking stories of duels, highway robberies smuggling, riots, binge drinking and earthquakes, Rogers captures the anxieties of a half-decade and assesses the social reforms contemporaries framed and imagined to deal with the crisis
Inhalt:
The trials of Admiral Knowles -- The sailors' return -- The sailors' revenge -- Fire from heaven: the London earthquakes of 1750 -- Riots, revels, and reprisals -- Tackling the gin craze -- Henry Fielding and social reform -- From Havana to Halifax
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rogers, Nicholas Mayhem New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012
Sprache:
Englisch
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