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E. P. Thompson

Customs in Common

Studies in Traditional Popular Culture

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The meticulously researched, elegantly argued and deeply humane sequel to the landmark volume of social history, The Making of the English Working Class (The New York Times Book Review). This remarkable study investigates the gradual disappearance of a range of cultural customs against the backdrop of the great upheavals of the eighteenth century. As villagers were subjected to a legal system increasingly hostile to custom, they tried both to resist and to preserve tradition, becoming, as E. P. Thompson explains, rebellious, but rebellious in defense of custom. Although some historians have written of riotous peasants of England and Wales a… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-62097-216-8
  • EAN: 9781620972168
  • Produktnummer: 31916171
  • Verlag: The New Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 560 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor


E. P. Thompson (1924-1993) was a British historian, writer, socialist, and peace campaigner. He is most famous for his work on the British radical movements of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, as well as influential biographies of William Morris and William Blake. An ardent left-wing socialist critic of the Labour governments of 1964-70 and 1974-79 and a historian in the Marxist tradition, Thompson was an active figure in ending the Cold War.

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