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Captain Swing
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Artikel-Nr:
9781781681800
Veröffentl:
2014
Erscheinungsdatum:
12.08.2014
Seiten:
384
Autor:
Eric Hobsbawm
Gewicht:
477 g
Format:
208x136x32 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Eric Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria in 1917 and educated in Vienna, Berlin, London and Cambridge. He is the author of numerous classic works of history. He died in October 2012.George Rudé was a distinguished Marxist historian and renowned expert on eighteenth-century history. He died in 1993.
In our increasingly mechanized age, the Swing revolts are a timely record of the relationship between technological advance, labour and poverty.With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, capitalism swept from the cities into the countryside, and tensions mounted between agricultural workers and employers. From 1830 on, a series of revolts, known as the 'Swing' shook England to its core. Landowners wanting to make their land more profitable started to use machinery to harvest crops, causing widespread misery among rural communities. CAPTAIN SWING reveals the background to that upheaval, from its rise to its fall, and shines a