The War Against the Commons by Ian Angus

Author:Ian Angus
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NYU Press

The rural poor hated gamekeepers with the same passion that later generations of working people would feel toward scabs and Pinkerton’s union-busting thugs. They were known for demanding bribes, fabricating evidence, and violent assaults—and in many cases for poaching more game than the people they arrested. Even if the local gamekeeper was fair and honest, he was hated as the face of a system that denied them access to subsistence, a system in which many poor men and women were whipped, imprisoned, transported to Australia, or even executed, for trying to feed their families.

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