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190320b 2013 ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780957000520 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
328.420778 |
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T4W4 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Thompson, E. P. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
376669 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Whigs and hunters: the origin of the black act |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Breviary Stuff Publications |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2013 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
London |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiv, 259p. |
| Other physical details |
With index |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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Table of Contents<br/>Part 1 • Windsor<br/>Windsor Forest<br/>The Windsor Blacks<br/>Offenders and Antagonists<br/>Part 2 • Hampshire<br/>The Hampshire Forests<br/>King John<br/>Awful Examples<br/>The Hunters<br/>Part 3 • Whigs<br/>Enfield and Richmond<br/>The Politics of the Black Act<br/>Consequences and Conclusions<br/>i. People<br/>ii. Forests<br/>iii. The Exercise of Law<br/>iv. The Rule of Law |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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With Whigs and Hunters, the author of The Making of the English Working Class, E. P. Thompson plunged into the murky waters of the early eighteenth century to chart the violently conflicting currents that boiled beneath the apparent calm of the time. The subject is the Black Act, a law of unprecedented savagery passed by Parliament in 1723 to deal with ‘wicked and evil-disposed men going armed in disguise’.These men were pillaging the royal forest of deer, conducting a running battle against the forest officers with blackmail, threats and violence These ‘Blacks’, however, were men of some substance; their protest (for such it was) took issue with the equally wholsesale plunder of the forest by Whig nominees to the forest offices. And Robert Walpole, still consolidating his power, took an active part in the prosecution of the ‘Blacks’. The episode is laden with political and social implications, affording us glimpses of considerable popular discontent, political chicanery, judicial inequity, corrupt ambition and crime.<br/><br/>https://www.breviarystuff.org.uk/e-p-thompson-whigs-and-hunters/ |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Forestry law and legislation - Great Britain |
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Criminal provisions |
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Royal commission on the laws of marriage |
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Whigs Political party |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
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Book |
