Panel Discussion of Peter Linebaugh's
The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century

September 30, 8 PM

National Arts Club

(Sculpture Court, 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC

phone : 212-475-3424)

Panel Participants:

PETER LINEBAUGH, ROBIN BLACKBURN, ERIC FONER, MICHAEL RATNER, ROBIN KELLEY

The London Hanged has been widely praised as as an exemplary, trail-blazing and indispensable history of crime and society in the eighteenth century and on the rise of capitalism. Its highly original and provocative analysis of the
links between new forms of private property and the criminalization of the
poor, illustrated in the public hangings at the Tyburn gallows, has made it a
powerful model for understanding globalization and local struggles today.For information contact Rachel Guidera at the VERSO publicity department
(212) 807-9680.