George Rude

Criminal and victim : crime and society in early nineteenth-century England

This social history not only studies crime and punishment in early 19th-century England, but also draws on higher court records to reconstruct case histories of the actual people involved in crime: the prisoners and the victims. The book focuses on Sussex, Gloucester, and Middlesec counties, each in its own way typical of developments in early British industrial society between 1800 and 1850. By examining crime as a social as well as a legal phenomenon, the book casts new light on the different urban and rural patterns of crime, the influence of economic and political factors, and the social profiles of both criminals and victims.

The Crowd in the French Revolution.

One aspect of the French Revolution that has been largely neglected by historians is the nature of the revolutionary crowd. The present study presents the Parisian revolutionary crowd throughout the period 1787-1795, showing how it behaved, how it was composed, how it was drawn into activity, what it set out to achieve, and how far its aims were realized.