Browsing History by Author "Morrisette, Annie Tock"
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"They Would Have a Law of Their Own" : The Discourse on Smuggling at the Old Bailey, 1736-1814
Morrisette, Annie Tock (East Carolina University, 2013)This thesis examines the cases of 136 men tried for smuggling offenses at London's central criminal court during the long eighteenth century. Before the 1770s, the government portrayed smuggling as a crime against the ...