Riotous assemblies : popular protest in Hanoverian England / Adrian Randall.
Riotous assemblies : popular protest in Hanoverian England / Adrian Randall.
Riotous assemblies : popular protest in Hanoverian England / Adrian Randall.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N303.62309/ 2
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Language
English
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Physical content
354 p. ; 24 cm.
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...
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Publisher
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2006.
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Summary
"In this study, the history of eighteenth-century England is examined through the lens of popular disorder. Focusing upon both the more closely-studied forms of protest, such as food riots, industrial disorders, and political disturbances, and much less well-understood occasions of popular disorder, such as tax riots, turnpike riots, riots against...
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Riotous assemblies : popular protest in Hanoverian England / Adrian Randall.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other version (online)
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N303.62309/ 2
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74VKJjg8WQDO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKJjg8WQDO
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0199259909 (hbk.) :
9780199259908 (hbk.) :
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303.623094209033
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991022296409702626
