Customs in Common
Douban
ISBN: 9781565840744
author:
E. P. Thompson
publishing house: New Press, The
publication date: 1993
-8
binding: Paperback
price: USD 24.95
number of pages: 560
Studies in Traditional Popular Culture
E. P. Thompson
overview
One of this century's foremost historians describes the complex culture from which working class institutions emerged in England.
contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
I Introduction: Custom and Culture
II The Patricians and the Plebs
III Custom, Law and Common Right
IV The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century
V The Moral Economy Reviewed
VI Time, Work-Discipline, and Industiral Capitalism
VII The Sale of Wives
VIII The Rough Music
Index
