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Article: Crime in Early Modern England 1550-1750.(Review) (book review) (book review)
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- March 1, 2000
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Crime in Early Modern England 1550-1750
J.A. Sharpe Longman (2nd ed.) 1999. 291 pages 14.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0582 23889 7
BY THE EARLY 1980s, it was becoming possible for pioneers of the `new social history' of early modern England to survey their subfields and draw together what had been learnt so far. No one was better qualified than Jim Sharpe to do this for crime and the law, and his general synthesis, published in 1984, filled an obvious niche in the market. In 1999 it remains the best introduction to the subject, especially for undergraduates. And yet a tremendous amount of research has been published in the interim, and so an updated edition ...