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Book: Spectres of John Ball

Chapter: Class Struggle among the Historians

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.42761

Blurb:

This chapter looks at the closer scrutiny paid to Ball and the 1381 uprising by historians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and how the language of Marx, Marxism, socialism, and the emerging labour movement was affecting assessments of 1381.

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