Customs in Common

Author(s)

• Thompson, Edward P.

Bibliographic Information

Customs in Common

E.P. Thompson

（Penguin history）

Penguin, 1993

Note

First published by The Merlin Press 1991

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

18th-century Britain saw a profound distancing between the culture of the patricians and the plebs. The social historian E.P. Thompson explains why in this series of essays on the customs of the working people. By the author of "The Making of the English Working Class".

Table of Contents

• Introduction - custom and culture
• the patricians and the plebs
• custom, law and common right
• the moral economy of the English crowd in the eighteenth century
• the moral economy reviewed
• time, work-discipline and industrial capitalism
• the sales of wives
• rough music.

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Details

• NCID: BA21306272
• ISBN:
  • 0140125566
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 547 p., [32] p. of plates
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • DC : 305.50942
  • NDLC : GG234
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA19012541