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
Summary
'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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-344) and index
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