Customs in common / E.P. Thompson
1991, First Edition. London : Merlin. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Item #405172
ISBN: 0850364116
Physical description: xii, 547 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: 1. Introduction: custom and culture. -- 2. The patricians and the plebs. -- 3. Custom, law and common right. -- 4. The moral economy of the English crowd in the eighteenth century. -- 5. The moral economy reviewed. -- 6. Time, work-discipline and industrial capitalism. -- 7. The sale of wives. -- 8. Rough music. Subjects: 1700-1799; Working class England History 18th century; Peasants England History 18th century; Peasants; Economic history; Manners and customs; Popular culture; Social conditions; Working class.
Price: €28.00