Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England.(Book Review)

Garthine Walker. Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 310. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-57356-4.

Garthine Walker's book is not for the faint of heart. This is not because of her topic or her treatment of it. Crime, gender, and their social histories have been center stage in the new social history since the 1970s, and Walker's book is a major contribution to the field. Rather, readers may find their breaths taken away by the revisionist character of the volume, which ...

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