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Author Rule, John, 1944-2011.

Title Crime, protest, and popular politics in southern England, 1740-1850 / John Rule and Roger Wells
Published London ; Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. Crime, Protest and Radicalism / John Rule and Roger Wells -- 2. The Revolt of the South West, 1800-1: A Study in English Popular Protest / Roger Wells -- 3. The Perfect Wage System? Tributing in the Cornish Mines / John Rule -- 4. The Chartist Mission to Cornwall / John Rule -- 5. Richard Spurr of Truro: Small-Town Radical / John Rule -- 6. Resistance to the New Poor Law in the Rural South / Roger Wells -- 7. Southern Chartism / Roger Wells -- 8. Social Crime in the Rural South in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries / John Rule -- 9. Crime and Protest in a Country Parish: Burwash, 1790-1850 / Roger Wells -- 10. The Manifold Causes of Rural Crime: Sheep-Stealing in England, c. 1740-1840 / John Rule
Summary Southern England has been studied considerably less than the industrializing north and midlands in the debate on the standard of living in the period up to 1850. Yet it is becoming clear that it was in the south and in the countryside that the greatest poverty and deprivation was to be found. These essays examine responses to the struggle to live. The responses ranged from, at the most extreme, sheep-stealing and incendiarism to joining in food riots in an attempt to impose a "moral economy". More sustained protest is to be seen in passive and sometimes active resistance to authority
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Protest movements -- England, Southern -- History -- 18th century
Protest movements -- England, Southern -- History -- 19th century
Popular culture -- England, Southern -- History -- 18th century
Popular culture -- England, Southern -- History -- 19th century
Crime -- England, Southern -- History -- 18th century
Crime -- England, Southern -- History -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Crime
Politics and government
Protest movements
Popular culture
Soziale Unruhen
Aufsatzsammlung
Kriminalität
Protestbewegingen.
Criminaliteit.
SUBJECT England, Southern -- Politics and government
Subject Southern England
England -- Süd
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Wells, Roger A. E
ISBN 9780826462282
0826462286