{"product_id":"9781911204275","title":"Peculiar Privilege: A Social History of English Foxhunting, 1753-1885","description":"The best introduction to the social history of fox-hunting as the chief leisure activity of the English aristocracy, and of a central social institution and symbol of traditional pre-industrial society.\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edward Everett Root","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056865657072,"sku":"9781911204275","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781911204275_p0.jpg?v=1769896799","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781911204275","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}