Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700-1850

Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700-1850
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 9781137373014
ISBN-13 : 1137373016
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Book Synopsis Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700-1850 by : Carl Griffin

Download or read book Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700-1850 written by Carl Griffin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural workers in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England were not passive victims in the face of rapid social change. Carl J. Griffin shows that they deployed an extensive range of resistances to defend their livelihoods and communities. Locating protest in the wider contexts of work, poverty and landscape change, this new text offers the first critical overview of this growing area of study.


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