Riotous assemblies : popular protest in Hanoverian England /

'Riotous Assemblies' examines 18th & early 19th century England through the lens of popular disorder. This book pays particular attention to disturbances in the years between 1795 and 1812, examining how far they indicated the discontinuities discerned by earlier histories of protest.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Randall, Adrian
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Riots > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Violence > England > History > 18th century.
Violence > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Émeutes > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
Economic history
Riots
Social conditions
Violence
Opstanden.
Protestacties.
Uppror > historia > Storbritannien > 1700-talet.
Våld > historia > Storbritannien > 1700-talet.
Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Great Britain > Economic conditions > 18th century.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 18th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Conditions économiques > 18e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 18e siècle.
England
Great Britain
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
Storbritannien > historia > 1700-talet.
Storbritannien > ekonomiska förhållanden > 1700-talet.
Storbritannien > sociala förhållanden > 1700-talet.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents; 1. Reading the Riot; 2. Power, Authority, and the Riot Act; 3. Protesting People; 4. Food, Market Custom, and Protest; 5. Setting the Price: Food Riots before 1790; 6. Industrial Protest, Custom, and Law; 7. Country People: Popular Protest in the English Countryside; 8. Nobs and Mobs: Political Disorders; 9. The Repudiation of the Moral Economy; 10. Before the Luddites: Machinery, Regulation, and the State; 11. 'Engines of Mischief ': The Luddite Disturbances of 1811-12; 12. Riotous Assemblies; Bibliography; Index.

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