Whigs and Hunters
With Whigs and Hunters, the author of The Making of the English Working Class, E. P. Thompson plunged into the murky waters of the early eighteenth century to chart the violently conflicting currents that boiled beneath the apparent calm of the time. The subject is the Black Act, a law of unprecedented savagery passed by Parliament in 1723 to deal with 'wicked and evil-disposed men going armed in disguise'. These men were pillaging the royal forest of deer, conducting a running battle against the forest officers with blackmail, threats and violence.These 'Blacks', however, were men of some substance; their protest (for such it was) took issue…
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- ISBN: 978-0-9570005-2-0
- EAN: 9780957000520
- Produktnummer: 27264500
- Verlag: Breviary Stuff Pubn
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 278 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.6 cm 452 g
- Gewicht: 452
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