Peculiar Privilege : A Social History of English Foxhunting, 1753-1885 Hardback
by David C. Itzkowitz
Part of the Classics in Social and Economic History series
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The landmark book provides a clear understanding of the ways in which landed society functioned, and of the assumptions that governed it.
The work emphasizes the strength of older pre-industrial assumptions and relationships, as it moves through the railway age, concluding with the Great Depression of Agriculture when hunting changed irrevocably.
In the years between the mid-18th century and the British agricultural depression of the 1880s fox-hunting assumed a key cultural role.
It was transformed from the private, informal recreation of a few country squires to a highly organised, extremely influential public institution.
It never ceased to be viewed as a sport - paradoxically, both of the aristocracy and of the people - and it took on a significance out of all proportion to its role as a mere sport. Hunting and the chase became, in the influential words both of hunting and non-hunting people, a full, legitimate feature of rural society, one which could affect the lives of everyone in the society.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:260 pages, 16 b&w
- Publisher:Edward Everett Root
- Publication Date:30/09/2016
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- ISBN:9781911204282
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:260 pages, 16 b&w
- Publisher:Edward Everett Root
- Publication Date:30/09/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781911204282