By Rite: Custom, Ceremony and Community in Britain, 1700-1880 - Tapa dura

By Rite: Custom, Ceremony and Community in Britain, 1700-1880

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket - full brown cloth over boards with gold lettering stamped on spine. Glossy white illustrated DJ. Sewn binding. 294 pages, with b/w illustrations, bibliographic end notes after each chapter, appendices, and index. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. CONDITION: Book FINE, binding square and tight, pages bright and unmarked, save for former owner's name on front pastedown; DJ NEAR FINE, light rubbing and edge wear, crease along front outer edge, not clipped, protected in a clear archival (Mylar) cover. CONTENT: Bringing together a wealth of research, this book explores the view that rural folk practices and customs were a mechanism of social cohesion, and social disruption. Through them the interdependence of the rural working-class and the gentry was affirmed, and infringements of the rights of the poor resisted, sometimes aggressively. >Guaranteed secure packaging, free tracking, and no-hassle return policy. Nº de ref. del artículo: 002967

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