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Liberty Against the Law: Some Seventeenth-Century Controversies

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A classic study of popular resistance to the momentous changes of 17th century England

In 17th Century England, the law was not an instrument of justice - it was an instrument of oppression. The enclosures of common land, loss of many traditional rights and draconian punishments for minor transgressions changed the lives of the peasantry and created a landless class of wage labourers.

In this, the last book published during his lifetime, renowned historian of the English Revolution Christoph...