Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act, Volume 10

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Pantheon Books, 1975 - Law - 312 pages
"This is Edward Thompson's first book since the publication in 1963 of The Making of the English Working Class, a book that has become a modern classic and proved to be of interest to far more than historians. Whigs and Hunters has taken Thompson into an area that was largely new to him. Moving back into Hanoverian Britain of the 1720s, Thompson has focused on a new vantage point: the notorious Black Act of 1723, which introduced the death penalty for many new offences, some as trivial as deer stalking in disguise at night, cutting down young trees, and writing threatening letters..." -- Back cover.

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10
The Black Act
21
Windsor Forest
27
Copyright

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Thompson is a contemporary neo-Marxist. He has studied especially the development of a working-class consciousness in the early years of the Industrial Revolution.

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