1st Edition
An Ungovernable People The English and Their Law in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
1. Two concepts of order: justice, constables and jurymen in seventeenth-century England
Keith Wrightson
2. Grain riots and popular attitudes to the law: Maldon and the crisis of 1629
John Walter
3. ‘A set of ungovernable people’: the Kingswood colliers in the eighteenth century
Robert W. Malcolmson
4. The Wilkites and the law, 1763–74: a study of radical notions of governance
John Brewer
5. ‘Our traitorous money makers’: the Yorkshire coiners and the law, 1760–83
John Styles
6. The King’s Bench prison in the later eighteenth century: law, authority and order in a London debtors’ prison
Joanna Innes
Biography
John Brewer is Emeritus Professor of History and Literature at California Institute of Technology, USA. Brewer's research interests have focused on two areas: issues of value in the visual-art world and questions of travel, tourism, identity, and place. He has had a long-standing interest in the fraught relationship between culture and money, on which he has written extensively during his career.
John Styles is Professor Emeritus in History, University of Hertfordshire, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK. He specializes in the history of early-modern Britain and its colonies, especially the study of material life, manufacturing and design.
Reviews of the first publication:
‘…this collection of essays is superb both in conception and in execution.’
— G. R. Rubin, British Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 8, No. 1
‘…An Ungovernable People is an important and exceptionally coherent collection of essays that should attract not only the increasing number of students of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century crime, but also anyone interested in the social or political history of the period.’
— Susan Staves, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1
