Books written by E. P. Thompson

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  Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law

  Witness Against the Beast is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study in which the renowned social historian E.P. Thompson contends that most of the assumptions scholars have made about William Blake are misleading and unfounded.

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  The Making of the English Working Class

  Its publication in 1963 was highly controversial in academia, but the work has become a seminal text on the history of the working class.

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  Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture

  The “meticulously researched, elegantly argued and deeply humane” sequel to the landmark volume of social history, The Making of the English Working Class (The New York Times Book Review).

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  The Romantics: England in a Revolutionary Age (Large Print 16pt)

  Combining his incomparable knowledge of English history with an original interpretation of British literature of the late 18th and early nineteenth century, E. P. Thompson traces the intellectual influences and societal pressures that gave ...

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  William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary

  "This biographical study is a window into 19th-century British society and the life of William Morris - the great craftsman, architect, designer, poet, and writer - who remains a monumental and influential figure to this day.

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  Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200-1800

  This pioneering book examines different aspects of the inheritance customs in rural Western Europe in the pre-industrial age: for families and whole societies, the roles of lawyers in reducing them to a common system, and the recurring ...

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  Alien Homage: Edward Thompson and Rabindranath Tagore

  This Study Of Personal, Literary And Cultural Relations Will Appeal To A Wide General Readership And Provide Interesting Glimpses To Students Of Literature And Cultural Studies.

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  The Rising of the Luddites: Chartists and Plug-Drawers

  Only a few years before the Luddites arose,the paternallegislators, which had foolishly shackled trade were engaged in the consideration of a billto repeal certain restrictive provisions which they andtheir fathers had madelaw.

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  Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black ACT

  With Whigs and Hunters, the author of The Making of the English Working Class, E. P. Thompson plunged into the murky waters of the early eighteenth century to chart the violently conflicting currents that boiled beneath the apparent calm of ...

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  Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law

  First paperback edition of one of E. P. Thompson's best and most deeply felt works.