Description
Sir
Your name is down amongst the Black hearts in the Black Book and this is to advise you and the like of you, who are Parson Justasses, to make your wills
Ye have been the Blackguard Enemies of the People on all occasions, Ye have not yet done
as ye ought
- Swing
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 light on the people who tried to change the world and save their livelihoods.
The classic social history of the great English agricultural uprising of 1830, from two of the greatest modern historians
About the Author
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 Rude was a distinguished Marxist historian and renowned expert on eighteenth-century history. He died in 1993.
Book Information
ISBN 9781781681800
Author Eric Hobsbawm
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 472g
Dimensions(mm) 209mm * 141mm * 30mm
Your name is down amongst the Black hearts in the Black Book and this is to advise you and the like of you, who are Parson Justasses, to make your wills
Ye have been the Blackguard Enemies of the People on all occasions, Ye have not yet done
as ye ought
- Swing
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 light on the people who tried to change the world and save their livelihoods.
The classic social history of the great English agricultural uprising of 1830, from two of the greatest modern historians
About the Author
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 Rude was a distinguished Marxist historian and renowned expert on eighteenth-century history. He died in 1993.
Book Information
ISBN 9781781681800
Author Eric Hobsbawm
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 472g
Dimensions(mm) 209mm * 141mm * 30mm
