The Long Affray: Poaching Wars in Britain - Brossura

Hopkins, Harry

 
9780333420607: The Long Affray: Poaching Wars in Britain
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ISBN 10: 0333420608 ISBN 13: 9780333420607
Casa editrice: Papermac, 1986

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Published in 1985 and described by Ronald Blythe in the Guardian as a 'great telling of a shocking story' Harry Hopkins examines the history of a bitter conflict that raged in England for over two centuries. Coming across an obscure poacher's grave Hopkins finds two contradictory headstones: one denouncing the poacher as a murderer and the other saluting him as a martyr. So begins Hopkins's quest for the truth and it leads him to an age-old battle between peasant and landowner where for the price of a rabbit or a pheasant men were murdered, transported as convicts and executed. This ancient struggle over game was not just about food for the poor poachers and their families, it was about social rank and the power of the landed gentry, the burgeoning class politics of the time and the harsh realities of rural life. Writers like Rudyard Kipling and politicians such as David Lloyd George all engaged in the debates surrounding the game laws and the effect they had on the families of those who were caught poaching. It was a bloody conflict and one that is as compelling now as it was two hundred years ago.

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Editore
Papermac
Data di pubblicazione
1986
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0333420608
ISBN 13 
9780333420607
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
352
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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ISBN 10:  0571242006 ISBN 13:  9780571242009
Casa editrice: Faber and Faber, 2011
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