Captain Swing
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Captain Swing

Captain Swing

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Eric Hobsbawm (Author) George Rude (Author)  

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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.
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.
  • Contributor: Eric Hobsbawm
  • Imprint: Verso Books
  • ISBN13: 9781781681800
  • Number of Pages: 384
  • Packaged Dimensions: 141x209x30mm
  • Packaged Weight: 472
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Release Date: 2014-08-12
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: 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.

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