By a Flash and a Scare: Incendiarism, Animal Maiming, and Poaching in East Anglia 1815-1870 - Couverture rigide

Archer, John E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 019820177X ISBN 13 : 9780198201779

Editeur : Clarendon Press, 1990

Synopsis

"By a Flash and a Scare" illuminates the darker side of rural life in the 19th century. Flashpoints such as the Swing Riots have long attracted the attention of historians, but here John Archer focuses on the persistent war waged in the countryside, analyzing the prevailing climate of unrest, discontent, and desperation. Based on research among the local records of Norfolk and Suffolk, the book identifies and examines the three most serious crimes of protest in the countryside - arson, animal maiming, and poaching. It argues that rural society in East Anglia was shaped by terror and oppression in equal measure, and that crime and protest were an integral part of the ordinary life of the rural poor.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

`By a Flash and a Scare' illuminates the darker side of rural life in the nineteenth century. Incidents such as the Swing Riots have long attracted the attention of historians, but here John Archer focuses on the persistent war waged in the countryside, analysing the prevailing climate of unrest, discontent, and desperation. In this detailed and scholarly study, based on intensive research among the local records of Norfolk and Suffolk, Dr Archer identifies and examines the three most serious crimes of protest in the countryside - arson, animal maiming, and poaching. He shows how rural society in East Anglia was shaped by terror and oppression. Crime and protest were an integral part of the ordinary life of the rural poor. `By a Flash and a Scare' dispels any lingering notions of a `green and pleasant land', and makes an important contribution to our understanding of life in the nineteenth-century countryside.

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`The extent of Archer's analysis is breathtaking: ... He is a persuasive historian ... the book which will do most to alter romantic perceptions of the nineteenth-century countryside.' David J. V. Jones, Times Literary Supplement

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Clarendon Press
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 019820177X
• ISBN 13: 9780198201779
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 293
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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