E.P. Thompson

Whigs and Hunters

Study of English class law, crime, and resistance during eighteenth-century enclosure

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E.P. Thompson

British Marxist historian whose The Making of the English Working Class is the greatest work of social history in the English language. He rescued the working class from the condescension of posterity and showed how class is made in experience and culture, not just economic position.

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