Riotous assemblies : popular protest in Hanoverian England / Adrian Randall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Randall, Adrian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Riots--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Riots.

Violence--England--History--18th century.

Violence.

Great Britain--History--18th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Economic conditions--18th century.

Great Britain--Social conditions--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Riotous Assemblies examines eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England through the lens of popular disorder. Adrian Randall shows how conflicts and tensions in 'high' politics contributed to a potent national sense of freedom and right, giving ordinary people the confidence to respond vigorously to any threat to their customary liberties. He demonstrates how the rulers of eighteenth-century England were forced to manage disorder through a mixture of judicious theatre and periodic repression, and how economic and social transformation led to fundamental changes in the nature of popular

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;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [332]-344) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-75364-1

0-19-151460-8

1-4294-6004-0

OCLC:

437094576