Robert B Shoemaker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1160903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert B Shoemaker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert B |
| FAMILY NAME | Shoemaker |
| SIGNATURE | SHOEMAKER R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sympathy for the Criminal
This article investigates the rise and fall of the criminal celebrity in London between 1660 and 1790. It explains how, through the dramatic expansion of print culture and the rise of sensibility, a small number of highwaymen, thieves and a bigamist were able to seek and receive substantial public sympathy, despite widespread concerns about the extent of crime in London. However, in the early nineteenth century, changing attitudes towards crime a…
Worrying About Crime
This article considers the nature and significance of public opinion about crime in the eighteenth century. Existing research suggests that a combination of increasing crime and the growth of printed literature about crime led to public anxieties which contributed to important changes in judicial and penal policy. The prominent role accorded to the media in these arguments has led some historians to adopt the concept of the moral panic to encapsu…
Print and the Female Voice
Between 1690 and 1735, London experienced a female crime wave. This article examines how this female criminality was represented in the burgeoning world of popular crime literature. Traditional genres of print remained wedded to conventional gender stereotypes, but the new quasi‐official genres of the Old Bailey Proceedings and the Ordinary's Accounts represented female thieves in first‐person narratives which allowed the complex motivations for …
Narrating the Poor
Book Review| September 01 2010 Narrating the Poor Alysa Levene, ed. Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 5 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006). Vol. 1: Voices of the Poor: Poor Law Depositions and Letters, ed. Steven King, Thomas Nutt, Alannah Tomkins. Pp. 297; vol. 2: Voices from the Street, ed. Deborah S. Symonds. Pp. 198; vol. 3: Institutional Responses: The London Foundling Hospital, ed. Alysa Levene. Pp. 373. 6 ills.;…
Lost Londons
Riotous assemblies
The Taming of the Duel
Over the course of the ‘long’ eighteenth century the nature and significance of duels fought in the London area changed dramatically. Pistols replaced swords, seconds took on a new role as mediators, and new conventions reduced the violence. Consequently, injuries and fatalities decreased significantly. The purpose of fighting duels also shifted from the defeat of one's antagonist to a demonstration of courage. Although duels continued to occur, …
Gender, Language, and Urban Social Relations in Europe, 1540-1850
Stilling the Grumbling Hive
Prosecution and Punishment
Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, c. 1660–1725 Get access Shoemaker Robert B.Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, c. 1660–1725. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xviii, 351 pp. $64.50. Michael De L. Landon Michael De L. Landon University of Mississippi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of…
Prosecution and Punishment
Short notices
Margaret Bonney, Lordship and the Urban Community. Durham and its Overlords, 1250–1540 (1990), xiv + 307 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, £30.00). The Criers and Hawkers of London. Engravings and Drawings by Marcellus Laroon, edited, with an introduction and commentary, by Sean Shesgreen (1990), xii + 252 (Scolar Press, £45.00). Carole Shammas, The Pre‐industrial Consumer in England and America (1990), xi + 319 (Oxford, Oxford University P…
The ‘Crime Wave’ Revisited
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The London “Mob” in the Early Eighteenth Century
Shortened from the Latin phrase mobile vulgus (the movable or excitable crowd), “the mob” was first used to denote rioters in London during the Exclusion Crisis (1678–81). The term gradually entered the language Londoners used to describe disorder over the next few decades; justices of the peace did not commonly use it to refer to riots in the Quarter Sessions court records until the first decade of the eighteenth century. By 1721, 44 percent of …
The Taming of the Duel
Over the course of the ‘long’ eighteenth century the nature and significance of duels fought in the London area changed dramatically. Pistols replaced swords, seconds took on a new role as mediators, and new conventions reduced the violence. Consequently, injuries and fatalities decreased significantly. The purpose of fighting duels also shifted from the defeat of one's antagonist to a demonstration of courage. Although duels continued to occur, …
The London “Mob” in the Early Eighteenth Century
Shortened from the Latin phrase mobile vulgus (the movable or excitable crowd), “the mob” was first used to denote rioters in London during the Exclusion Crisis (1678–81). The term gradually entered the language Londoners used to describe disorder over the next few decades; justices of the peace did not commonly use it to refer to riots in the Quarter Sessions court records until the first decade of the eighteenth century. By 1721, 44 percent of …
Worrying About Crime
This article considers the nature and significance of public opinion about crime in the eighteenth century. Existing research suggests that a combination of increasing crime and the growth of printed literature about crime led to public anxieties which contributed to important changes in judicial and penal policy. The prominent role accorded to the media in these arguments has led some historians to adopt the concept of the moral panic to encapsu…
The London “Mob” in the Early Eighteenth Century
Shortened from the Latin phrase mobile vulgus (the movable or excitable crowd), “the mob” was first used to denote rioters in London during the Exclusion Crisis (1678–81). The term gradually entered the language Londoners used to describe disorder over the next few decades; justices of the peace did not commonly use it to refer to riots in the Quarter Sessions court records until the first decade of the eighteenth century. By 1721, 44 percent of …
Short notices
Margaret Bonney, Lordship and the Urban Community. Durham and its Overlords, 1250–1540 (1990), xiv + 307 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, £30.00). The Criers and Hawkers of London. Engravings and Drawings by Marcellus Laroon, edited, with an introduction and commentary, by Sean Shesgreen (1990), xii + 252 (Scolar Press, £45.00). Carole Shammas, The Pre‐industrial Consumer in England and America (1990), xi + 319 (Oxford, Oxford University P…
The ‘Crime Wave’ Revisited
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Prosecution and Punishment
Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, c. 1660–1725 Get access Shoemaker Robert B.Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, c. 1660–1725. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xviii, 351 pp. $64.50. Michael De L. Landon Michael De L. Landon University of Mississippi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of…
Prosecution and Punishment
Stilling the Grumbling Hive
Gender, Language, and Urban Social Relations in Europe, 1540-1850
The Taming of the Duel
Over the course of the ‘long’ eighteenth century the nature and significance of duels fought in the London area changed dramatically. Pistols replaced swords, seconds took on a new role as mediators, and new conventions reduced the violence. Consequently, injuries and fatalities decreased significantly. The purpose of fighting duels also shifted from the defeat of one's antagonist to a demonstration of courage. Although duels continued to occur, …
Riotous assemblies
Lost Londons
Print and the Female Voice
Between 1690 and 1735, London experienced a female crime wave. This article examines how this female criminality was represented in the burgeoning world of popular crime literature. Traditional genres of print remained wedded to conventional gender stereotypes, but the new quasi‐official genres of the Old Bailey Proceedings and the Ordinary's Accounts represented female thieves in first‐person narratives which allowed the complex motivations for …
Narrating the Poor
Book Review| September 01 2010 Narrating the Poor Alysa Levene, ed. Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 5 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006). Vol. 1: Voices of the Poor: Poor Law Depositions and Letters, ed. Steven King, Thomas Nutt, Alannah Tomkins. Pp. 297; vol. 2: Voices from the Street, ed. Deborah S. Symonds. Pp. 198; vol. 3: Institutional Responses: The London Foundling Hospital, ed. Alysa Levene. Pp. 373. 6 ills.;…
Worrying About Crime
This article considers the nature and significance of public opinion about crime in the eighteenth century. Existing research suggests that a combination of increasing crime and the growth of printed literature about crime led to public anxieties which contributed to important changes in judicial and penal policy. The prominent role accorded to the media in these arguments has led some historians to adopt the concept of the moral panic to encapsu…
Sympathy for the Criminal
This article investigates the rise and fall of the criminal celebrity in London between 1660 and 1790. It explains how, through the dramatic expansion of print culture and the rise of sensibility, a small number of highwaymen, thieves and a bigamist were able to seek and receive substantial public sympathy, despite widespread concerns about the extent of crime in London. However, in the early nineteenth century, changing attitudes towards crime a…
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