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Stand and Deliver! - A History of Highway Robbery

Paperback • 2004

Stand and Deliver! - A History of Highway Robbery

By David L. Brandon

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About the book

Why is the highwayman largely perceived as a romantic, glamorous and gallant figure? How is it that men who were really nothing more than bandits, who were often gratuitously violent, sometimes murderers and rapists as well, have become the swashbuckling heroes of history? To put their roles in context, the book probes into the economic, social and technological factors that at certain times made highway robbery highly lucrative and which help to explain why some of its exponents eventually disa...Show more

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9780750935289

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2004

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Stand and Deliver! - A History of Highway Robbery

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