Customs in Common
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Customs in Common
(Penguin history)
Penguin, 1993
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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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