The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868
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Hanging people for small crimes as well as grave, the Bloody Penal Code was at its most active between 1770 and 1830. In those years some 7,000 men and women were executed on public scaffolds, watched by thousands. Hanging was confined to murderers thereafter, but these were still killed in public until 1868. Clearly the gallows loomed over much of social life in this period. But how did those who watched, read about, or ordered these strangulations feel about the terror and suffering inflicted ... Hanging people for small crimes as well as grave, the Bloody Penal Code was at its most active between 1770 and 1830. In those years some 7,000 men and women were executed on public scaffolds, watched by thousands. Hanging was confined to murderers thereafter, but these were still killed in public until 1868. Clearly the gallows loomed over much of social life in this period. But how did those who watched, read about, or ordered these strangulations feel about the terror and suffering inflicted in the law's name? What kind of justice was delivered, and how did it change? This book is the first to explore what a wide range of people felt about these ceremonies (rather than what a few famous men thought and wrote about them). A history of mentalities, emotions, and attitudes rather than of policies and ideas, it analyses responses to the scaffold at all social levels: among the crowds which gathered to watch executions; among 'polite' commentators from Boswell and Byron on to Fry, Thackeray, and Dickens; and among the judges, home secretary, and monarch who decided who should hang and who should be reprieved. Drawing on letters, diaries, ballads, broadsides, and images, as well as on poignant appeals for mercy which historians until now have barely explored, the book surveys changing attitudes to death and suffering, 'sensibility' and 'sympathy', and demonstrates that the long retreat from public hanging owed less to the growth of a humane sensibility than it did to the development of new methods of punishment and law enforcement, and to polite classes' deepening squeamishness and fear of the scaffold crowd. This gripping study is essential reading for anyone interested in the processes which have 'civilized' our social life. Challenging many conventional understandings of the period, V. A. C. Gatrell sets new agendas for all students of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture and society, while reflecting uncompromisingly on the origins and limits of our modern attitudes to other people's misfortunes. Panoramic in range, scholarly in method, and compelling in argument, this is one of those rare histories which both shift our sense of the past and speak powerfully to the present.Taal: Engels;Afmetingen: 34x234x155 mm;Gewicht: 944,00 gram;Verschijningsdatum: oktober 1996;Druk: 1;ISBN10: 0192853325;ISBN13: 9780192853325; Engelstalig | Paperback | 1996.

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18th century,19th century,astronomy and space science,cosmology,criminology,england,europe,history,humanities,law, Some thirty-five thousand people were condemned to death in England and Wales between 1770 and 1830, and seven thousand were ultimately executed, the majority convicted of crimes such as burglary, horse theft, or forgery. Mostly poor trades people--weavers, clerks, whipmakers--these terrified men and women would suffer excruciating death before large and excited crowds. Indeed, crowds of three to seven thousand were normal, and for famous cases, the mob could swell to fifty thousand or more (a hundred thousand were said to have watched the hanging of murderers Holloway and Haggarty--so great a throng that thirty spectators were crushed to death). What brought people out for such a gruesome spectacle? How did they feel about the deadly justice meted out in their midst? These are some of the questions examined in The Hanging Tree, a fascinating history of public executions in their awful heyday in England. Drawing on letters, diaries, ballads, and poignant appeals for mercy, V.A.C. Gatrell vividly recreates the social atmosphere and heated debate swirling about these cruel spectacles. He gives readers an unflinching look at what these executions were really like, paints a colorful portrait of the large crowds who gathered to watch, and describes the part the gallows played in the popular imagination (as reflected in flash ballads, Punch and Judy shows, and broadsides). Gatrell illuminates the debate over public execution that raged in polite society, discussing th.

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Some thirty-five thousand people were condemned to death in England and Wales between 1770 and 1830, and seven thousand were ultimately executed, the majority convicted of crimes such as burglary, horse theft, or forgery. Mostly poor trades people--weavers, clerks, whipmakers--these terrified men and women would suffer excruciating death before large and excited crowds. Indeed, crowds of three to seven thousand were normal, and for famous cases, the mob could swell to fifty thousand or more (a hundred thousand were said to have watched the hanging of murderers Holloway and Haggarty--so great a throng that thirty spectators were crushed to death). What brought people out for such a gruesome spectacle? How did they feel about the deadly justice meted out in their midst? These are some of the questions examined in The Hanging Tree, a fascinating history of public executions in their awful heyday in England. Drawing on letters, diaries, ballads, and poignant appeals for mercy, V.A.C. Gatrell vividly recreates the social atmosphere and heated debate swirling about these cruel spectacles. He gives readers an unflinching look at what these executions were really like, paints a colorful portrait of the large crowds who gathered to watch, and describes the part the gallows played in the popular imagination (as reflected in flash ballads, Punch and Judy shows, and broadsides). Gatrell illuminates the debate over public execution that raged in polite society, discussing the commentary of writers such as Boswell, Byron, Thackeray, and Dickens, most of whom deplored the behavior of the crowd more than the inhumanity of the sentence (Macaulay denounced abolitionists as effeminate). And Gatrell also examines the attitudes of the judges, politicians, and monarch who decided who should be reprieved and who should hang (a mortal decision often delivered with the one-sentence formula: "Let the law run its course"). Throughout the book, Gatrell traces how attitudes to death and suffering changed as the century progressed (after 1837, for instance, only murderers were hung, and after 1868, public exeuctions were abolished). Perhaps most surprising, Gatrell reveals that the demise of public hanging owed little to humanitarianism. In part, polite society simply preferred not to look at the ugly machine of justice that subtly served their interests. But ultimately, Gatrell contends, it was the unleashed passions of the scaffold crowd the unsettled the middle class: the crowd mirrored the state's violence too candidly and gave the lie to middle-class pretensions of civility and humanity. Panoramic in scope, authoritatively researched, and gripping from beginning to end, The Hanging Tree radically alters our sense of the past. It is not only a history of emotions, but also an emotional story, invested with the author's own incredulity and anger over the merciless events he chronicles. Taking up the plight of those who felt the hand of justice at its heaviest, he recaptures the lived experience of people poorly served by their own criminal law. Hardcover, Label: Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1994-12-08, Studio: Oxford University Press, Verkaufsrang: 1042732.

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This Book is in Good Condition. Clean Copy With Light Amount of Wear. 100% Guaranteed. Summary: 'a mammoth study, penetrating and poignant.a vast panorama, expertly interweaving history high and low, politics and passions, judges, jurors and journalists''New Statesman and Society'brilliant account . magnificent book . beautifully produced, well-illustrated and relatively inexpensive''Guardian'quite outstanding .book''Observer'magnificent new study . a book of extraordinary quality . the monumental scale of his achievement, and subtlety and richness of the argument.''Sunday Telegraph''brilliant book''Richard Gott, The Guardian''This is a powerful, committed and well-written book with a problematic theme . much of his fascinating book was more redolent of the 1960s than of the Victorian era . this is a continually interesting book, by the standards of modern scholarly publishing excellent value for money, and a study that ably bridges modern and historical concerns.''Jeremy Black, Financial Times''Its strengths are originality of research and force of statement. Above all, no praise can be too high for the author and publisher in the choice, appositeness, captioning and reproduction of the illustrations. They are so closely interwoven with the argument that they form a brilliant summary of it.''Richard Ollard, The Independent'a richly imaginative evocation of what public executions meant to onlookers - and to those struggling from the rope.''Independent on Sunday'There is plenty to incite horror, but the cleverness of the book is the way it puts the English way of execution into a political context.''Jeremy Paxman, The Independent'this massive study of public executions in England during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century . Gatrell''s sensitive and elaborate reconstructions of criminal cases, appeals to mercy, and executions are the strength of this important and provocative study.''Times Literary Supplement'This is an unusual book, in that it approaches history from the viewpoint of emotion . not a book for the squeamish. The descriptions of hangings, gibbeting, anatomising and the behaviour of the crowds and prisoners make almost unbearable reading . this is a work of meticulous scholarship and extensive research which, in concentrating on emotion, brings the history of the period vividly to life.''The Friend''An excellent secondary source; recommended for academic and larger public library history collections.''Nancy L Whitfield, Library Journal, October 1994''This is an unusual book, in that it approaches history from the viewpoint of emotion . It is not a book for the squeamish. The descriptions of hangings, gibbeting, anatomising and the behaviour of the crowds and prisoners make almost unbearable reading . this is a work of meticulous scholarship and extensive research which, in concentrating on emotion, brings the history of the period vividly to life.''Jan Arriens, The Friend, January 1995''magnificent though grim and haunting book . Some may find it, as the telly news puts it, "disturbing" or even "distressing".''Colin Welch, The Times''As is often the case, all that gets in the way of this cosy explanation is one or two facts, and the author of this book has done a magnificent job in bringing quite a few to our attention.''Jack Robertson, Socialist Review, February 1995'passionately argued book.Gatrell makes much use of a source hitherto scarcely touched by historians, namely the appeals of pardon from those sentenced to suffer the supreme penalty.There is clearly much more to be gleaned from this source.Gatrell has a string of similarly painful and shocking stories. This is a rich, powerful and stimulating volume which deserves an audience far beyond specialists in the topic and period.''The Bulletin'impressive, distasteful, prize-winning study''The Sunday Telegraph'Gatrell''s prize-winning investigation into the phenomenon tries to focus on how the ''entertainment'' affected the thousands who turned up.

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