Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices
Taylor & Francis

Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices

Edition: 1st Edition
Subjects: History, Humanities
ISBN13: 9780415755559
Published: 19 May 2014

Format - Paperback / softback
By Philip Rawlings

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Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices

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Product description

Criminal biographies enjoyed enormous popularity in the Eighteenth Century: today they offer us some fascinating perspectives on the period. Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprenticesis the first book to reproduce a number of these biographies in fullNot only do these biographies make fascinating reading, they also raise the problem of how to read them as historical documents. The author argues that instead of trying to uncover simple themes, the most revealing thing about them is the tensions around which they were constructed.

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