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Gentlemen and Poachers
Author | : Munsche |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1981-11-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521232848 |
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The eighteenth-century English game laws have long been synonymous with petty tyranny. By imposing a property qualification on sportsmen, they effectively denied all but country gentlemen the right to take game or even to possess a gun. Those who challenged the gentry's monopoly were fined or imprisoned, usually after only a summary hearing by the local justice of the peace. In the early nineteenth century, it was claimed that one out of every four inmates in England's prisons was an offender against the game laws. Bitterly denounced at the time, they have continued to be condemned by historians as arbitrary, savage and unjust. This book is the first full scholarly examination of the English game laws. Based on material drawn from over two dozen archives - including judicial records, estate correspondence and personal diaries - it attempts to explain what the laws actually were, why they were passed, how they were enforced and why they were eventually repealed. The picture which emerges from this investigation challenges the conventional wisdom about the game laws in a number of important respects.
Gentlemen and Poachers
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Author | : P. B. Munsche |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:933801674 |
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I Walked by Night Being the Life and History of the King of the Norfolk Poachers
Author | : Lilias Rider Haggard |
Publsiher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2013-04-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781447489788 |
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'I Walked by Night - Being the Life and History of the King of the Norfolk Poachers' by Lilias Rider Haggard. This is Haggard's brilliant view of poaching life from both sides of the fence. His unadulterated tales of the not too distant past may shock the 21st century reader with its slaughtering of anything that moved! This is an essential book for anyone with a romantic view of the English countryside and it's not too distant past.
Greyhound Nation
Author | : Edmund Russell |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2018-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521762090 |
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Edmund Russell examines interactions between greyhounds and their owners in England from 1200 to 1900 to prove that history is an evolutionary process.
The Real History of Tom Jones
Author | : J. Stevenson |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2005-03-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781403981721 |
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The Real History of Tom Jones revivifies historical materials from which Henry Fielding constructed the greatest comic novel of the eighteenth century. This study recovers and explores the contexts necessary to understand Fielding's subtle art, such as the bloody conflict for the throne between Stuarts and Hanoverians, a contradictory class system, game laws that both protected and flouted individual property rights, and a justice system that proclaimed hanging for many crimes but let most criminals go. Drawing on evidence such as the peculiar appearance of eighteenth-century money, the fraudulent autobiography of a gypsy king, and a magical prayer book illustration, the book offers new readings of both Tom Jones and the political and legal landscape of Georgian England.
The Invention of the Countryside
Author | : Donna Landry |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2001-08-20 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780230287570 |
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Today's hunting debate began in the eighteenth century, when the idea of the countryside was being invented through the imaginative displacement of agricultural production in favour of country sports and landscape tourism. Between the Game Act of 1671 and its repeal in 1831, writers on walking and hunting often held opposed views, but contributed equally to the origins of modern ecology, while sharing a commitment to trespass that preserved common rights in an era of growing privatization.
Crime in Early Modern England 1550 1750
Author | : James A Sharpe |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2014-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317891772 |
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Still the only general survey of the topic available, this widely-used exploration of the incidence, causes and control of crime in Early Modern England throws a vivid light on the times. It uses court archives to capture vividly the everyday lives of people who would otherwise have left little mark on the historical record. This new edition - fully updated throughout - incorporates new thinking on many issues including gender and crime; changes in punishment; and literary perspectives on crime.
Creatures of Empire
Author | : Virginia DeJohn Anderson |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195304462 |
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