London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690–1800
London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690–1800
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伦敦生活：贫困、犯罪和现代城市的形成，1690-1800 年
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2015
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通讯作者：
R. Shoemaker
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T. Hitchcock;R. Shoemaker
《伦敦生活》是一项引人入胜的新研究，揭示了18世纪小偷、乞丐、妓女和拦路强盗不太为人所知的经历。它记录了成千上万陷入贫困或因犯罪而被起诉的伦敦人的经历，并调查了他们的反应，以说明伦敦平民对社会政策变化的速度和方向的影响程度。借助于新的数字证据，这本书揭示了越狱者、穷人救济系统的专家操纵者、名人拦路强盗、单身母亲和流浪汉的生活；揭示了他们每个人如何尽其所能地利用这个系统，以便在各种不幸的环境中生存下来。在这些绝望的行为中，穷人和罪犯发挥了一种深刻而有效的代理形式，改变了制度本身，塑造了现代国家的演变
London Lives is a fascinating new study that exposes the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen. It charts the experiences of hundreds of thousands of Londoners who found themselves submerged in poverty or prosecuted for crime, and surveys their responses, to illustrate the extent to which plebeian Londoners influenced the pace and direction of change in social policy. Calling upon a new body of digital evidence, the book illuminates the lives of prison escapees, expert manipulators of the poor relief system, celebrity highwaymen, lone mothers and vagrants; revealing how they each played the system to the best of their ability in order to survive in their various circumstances of misfortune. In these acts of desperation, the poor and the criminal exercised a profound and effective form of agency that changed the system itself, and shaped the evolution of the modern state