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Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834.
"Between 1750 and 1840 ordinary British people abandoned such time-honored forms of protest as collective seizures of grain, the sacking of buildings, public humiliation, and physical abuse in favor of marches, petition drives, public meetings, and other sanctioned routines of social movement p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Florence :
Taylor and Francis,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of Contents; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; ABBREVIATIONS; 1. FROM MUTINY TO MASS MOBILIZATION; Contention in 1833; What Changedy and Why?; What's at Issue?; Contending Ideas; Common Action and Shared Understanding; Repertoires of Contention; Insistent Questions, Possible Answers; What's to Come; 2. CONTENTION UNDER A MAGNIFYING GLASS; A Change of Repertoires; Problems, Sources, Methods; A Calendar of Contention; Numbering the Struggles; Forms of Contention, Old and New.
- 3. CAPITAL, STATE, AND CLASS IN BRITAIN, 1750-1840Proletarians, Landlords, and Others; The Growth of Industry; Urbanization; Income and Inequality; War and the British State; Repression in Britain; Popular Participation in National Politics; Social Movements and Democracy; 4. WILKES, GORDON, AND POPULAR VENGEANCE, 1758-1788; How Britain Was Changing; Contentions Flow; How the Repertoire Worked; Against Poorhouses and Enclosures; Workers' Contention; Mutations; 5. REVOLUTION, WAR, AND OTHER STRUGGLES, 1789-1815; Associations in France and Britain; Economy and Demography.
- State, War, and ParliamentTextures of Contention; Contentious Issues; The Issue Is Food; Who Contended, and How?; Revolution and Popular Sovereignty; 6. STATE, CLASS, AND CONTENTION, 1816-1827; Economy and State, 1816-1827; From War to Peace to Contention; Contentious Contours; Queen Caroline; Contentious Actors; Workers in Action; Contending with Associations; Political Entrepreneurs, Radicals, and Reformers; Conclusions; 7. STRUGGLE AND REFORM, 1828-1834; Spurting Population, Expanding Economy; Consolidating State; Repertoires for the 1830s; The Political Crisis of 1828-1834.
- Embattled BobbiesSwing; Time for Reform; Workers; Glimmers of Revolution; 8. FROM DONKEYING TO DEMONSTRATING; To Retell the Story; To Meet in Public; Catholics in Politics; Toward Explanation; Social Movements and Demonstrations; National and International Politics; Foundations of Popular Contention; Mass National Politics and Democracy; APPENDIX 1. SOURCES AND METHODS; APPENDIX 2. MAJOR ACTS BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT DIRECTLY AFFECTING POPULAR ASSOCIATION AND COLLECTIVE ACTION, 1750-1834; REFERENCES; INDEX.