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Peculiar Privilege - A Social History of English Foxhunting, 1753-1885 (Paperback)
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Peculiar Privilege - A Social History of English Foxhunting, 1753-1885 (Paperback)
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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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