Whigs And Hunters The Origin Of The Black Act
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Whigs And Hunters The Origin Of The Black Act
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Author : E. P. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Breviary Stuff Publications
Release Date : 2015-09-07
Whigs And Hunters The Origin Of The Black Act written by E. P. Thompson and has been published by Breviary Stuff Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-07 with History categories.
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 with the equally wholsesale plunder of the forest by Whig nominees to the forest offices. And Robert Walpole, still consolidating his power, took an active part in the prosecution of the 'Blacks'. The episode is laden with political and social implications, affording us glimpses of considerable popular discontent, political chicanery, judicial inequity, corrupt ambition and crime.
Whigs And Hunters
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Author : Edward Palmer Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 1975
Whigs And Hunters written by Edward Palmer Thompson and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Capital punishment categories.
Appendices (p. 270-294): 1. The Black act.--2. Alexander Pope and the Blacks. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 295-300.
The Making Of The English Working Class
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Author : Edward Palmer Thompson
language : en
Publisher: IICA
Release Date : 1964
The Making Of The English Working Class written by Edward Palmer Thompson and has been published by IICA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Social Science categories.
This account of artisan and working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, adds an important dimension to our understanding of the nineteenth century. E.P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political consciousness of great vitality.
Whigs And Hunters The Origins Of The Black Act
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Author : Edward Palmer Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Whigs And Hunters The Origins Of The Black Act written by Edward Palmer Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with categories.
Witness Against The Beast
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Author : E. P. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1994-10-13
Witness Against The Beast written by E. P. Thompson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-10-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
First paperback edition of one of E. P. Thompson's best and most deeply felt works.
Albion S Fatal Tree
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Author : Douglas Hay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Albion S Fatal Tree written by Douglas Hay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Crime categories.
In the popular imagination, informed as it is by Hogarth, Swift, Defoe and Fielding, the eighteenth-century underworld is a place of bawdy knockabout, rife with colourful eccentrics. But the artistic portrayals we have only hint at the dark reality. In this new edition of a classic collection of essays, renowned social historians from Britain and America examine the gangs of criminals who tore apart English society, while a criminal law of unexampled savagery struggled to maintain stability. Douglas Hay deals with the legal system that maintained the propertied classes, and in another essay shows it in brutal action against poachers; John G. Rule and Cal Winslow tell of smugglers and wreckers, showing how these activities formed a natural part of the life of traditional communities. Together with Peter Linebaugh s piece on the riots against the surgeons at Tyburn, and E. P. Thompson s illuminating work on anonymous threatening letters, these essays form a powerful contribution to the study of social tensions at a transformative and vibrant stage in English history. This new edition includes a new introduction by Winslow, Hay and Linebaugh, reflecting on the turning point in the social history of crime that the book represents
Customs In Common
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Author : E. P. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: New Press/ORIM
Release Date : 2015-09-22
Customs In Common written by E. P. Thompson and has been published by New Press/ORIM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-22 with Social Science categories.
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 as if they were mainly a problem for magistrates and governments, for Thompson it is the rulers, landowners, and governments who were a problem for the people, whose exuberant culture preceded the formation of working-class institutions and consciousness. Essential reading for all those intrigued by English history, Customs in Common has a special relevance today, as traditional economies are being replaced by market economies throughout the world. The rich scholarship and depth of insight in Thompson’s work offer many clues to understanding contemporary changes around the globe. “[This] long-awaited collection . . . is a signal contribution . . . [from] the person most responsible for inspiring the revival of American labor history during the past thirty years.” —The Nation “This book signals the return to historical writing of one of the most eloquent, powerful and independent voices of our time. At his best he is capable of a passionate, sardonic eloquence which is unequalled.” —The Observer
Crime And Punishment In Eighteenth Century England
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Author : Frank McLynn
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-06-17
Crime And Punishment In Eighteenth Century England written by Frank McLynn and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-17 with History categories.
McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a crude means of redistributing wealth?
Authoritarian Rule Of Law
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Author : Jothie Rajah
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-04-16
Authoritarian Rule Of Law written by Jothie Rajah and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-16 with Law categories.
Through a focus on Singapore, this book presents an analysis of authoritarian legalism, showing how prosperity, public discourse, and a rigorous observance of legal procedure enable a reconfigured rule of law - liberal form but illiberal content. It shows how institutions and process become tools to constrain dissenting citizens while protecting those in political power.
The Crisis Of Theory
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Author : Scott Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-19
The Crisis Of Theory written by Scott Hamilton and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-19 with Political Science categories.
The Crisis of Theory, available in paperback for the first time, tells the story of the political and intellectual adventures of E. P. Thompson, one of Britain's foremost twentieth-century thinkers. Drawing on extraordinary new unpublished documents, Scott Hamilton shows that all of Thompson's work, from his acclaimed histories to his voluminous political writings to his little-noticed poetry, was inspired by the same passionate and idiosyncratic vision of the world. Hamilton shows the connection between Thompson's famously ferocious attack on the 'Stalinism in theory' of Louis Althusser and his assaults on positivist social science in books like The making of the English working class, and he produces previously unseen evidence to show that Thompson's hostility to both left and right-wing forms of authoritarianism was rooted in first-hand experience of violent political repression. This book will appeal to scholars and general readers with an interest in left-wing politics and theory, British society, twentieth-century history, modernist poetry, and the philosophy of history.