| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
xi, 347 pages : maps ; 22 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Themes in British social history |
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Themes in British social history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-337) and index. |
| Contents |
Abbreviations used in references -- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Introduction. Disturbances, riots, crowds and mobs ; Sources and methods -- The age of riots. The 'rage of party' ; The age of oligarchy ; Religious riots -- Manifold disorders. Recruiting riots ; Enclosures and turnpikes ; Smugglers, wreckers and poachers ; Popular disturbances and the local community -- Eighteenth-century London. The Sacheverell riots and popular Toryism in London ; The age if Walpole ; 'Independent' Westminster ; 'Wilkes and liberty!' ; The Gordon Riots -- Food riots in England. The location of food disturbances ; The participants ; Types of food riot ; The causes of food riots : prices and disturbances ; Riots and near-riots ; Famine or scarcity? ; The decline of food rioting -- Lab our disputes before the Combination Laws. The cloth-workers ; The framework knitters ; The keelmen ; Seamen's strikes ; The colliers ; The shipbuilding trades ; The 1790s ; The role of violence -- The age of revolution. Church and King riots ; Popular radicalism and popular disorder ; Industrial disputes under the Combination Laws ; The Luddites -- London in the age of revolution. The Westminster elections ; The impact of the French Revolution ; The anti-crimp-house riots ; The LCS and opposition to the war ; Bread or blood! ; Despard and the insurrectionary tradition -- London and the kingdom. Burdett and liberty ; The passing of the Corn Laws ; The insurrectionary tradition : from Spa Fields to Cato Street ; The Queen Caroline Affair -- Unions and labourers : industrial and agricultural protest. The rise of the unions ; Captain Swing -- The reform struggle. Waterloo to Peterloo ; Peterloo and after ; The reform crisis -- Conclusion. The causes ; Frequency and distribution ; Motives and beliefs ; The changing face of protest ; The threat of revolution -- Maps. Map 1. London in the reign of George I -- Map 2. London c. `1815. |
| Summary |
The first edition of this text covered both the 18th and 19th centuries. This second edition closes the study in the 1830s, at a point where the Great Reform Act marked one climax of the political agitations of the late 18th century and early 19th centuries. |
| Subject |
Violence -- England -- History.
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Riots -- England -- History.
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Great Britain -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Riots. (OCoLC)fst01098069
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Violence. (OCoLC)fst01167224
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England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
0582081017 (pbk.) |
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9780582081017 (pbk.) |
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