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标题：Tyburn Thanatos and Marxist Historiography: The Case of the London Hanged
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作者：Reid Jr., Charles J.
期刊名称：Cornell Law Review
印刷版ISSN：0010-8847
出版年度：1994
卷号：79
期号：5
页码：1158
出版社：Cornell Law Library
摘要：Introduction Peter Linebaugh's The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century 1 is a powerfully written and passionately argued book. Linebaugh's purpose is to understand the people who were hanged at Tyburn, the public hanging ground of the City of London for much of the eighteenth century. Linebaugh's sources for this history are primarily religious and legal - the Account of the Ordinary of Newgate, 2 a sort of prison chaplain to the condemned, and the Sessions Papers of the London courts. 3 From these records Linebaugh constructs a sociology of the condemned - a project that he calls "Tyburnography." 4 But Linebaugh's purposes are larger than merely reconstructing the lives of those hanged at Tyburn. He uses his sources to build what he calls a "history of making" and a "history of taking." 5 Literally understood, it was the "working class" that made London, and it was the working class whose members died on the gallows largely for taking things that "belonged" to others. 6 Linebaugh finds ideas such as "making," "taking," and "belonging" to be controverted concepts in eighteenth-century England, which leads him to consider the nature of eighteenth-century rule. The eighteenth-century English state, Linebaugh argues, was a "thanatocracy" - literally, a government of death. 7 It ruled by means of the discipline inculcated by the gallows. 8 The spectacle of public hanging was central to the maintenance of power by the English elites. By focusing on the ...
关键词：History; Analysis; Marxian historiography; Capital punishment; Criminal justice; Administration of