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Riotous Assemblies
Popular Protest in Hanoverian England
Adrian Randall
366 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-925990-8
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Hardback
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30 November 2006
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- New approach to understanding the nature of eighteenth century social, economic and political relations in England
- Examines the less-well-known forms of protest of the period
- Uses regional studies to build up a larger framework of riot activity
Riotous Assemblies examines eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England through the lens of popular disorder. Tackling 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 the establishment of the militia, and religious riot, Adrian Randall re-engages the study of riot within a wider interpretation of the forces - social, economic and political - which were transforming society. He pays particular attention to disturbances in the years between 1795 and 1812, critically
examining how far they indicated the major discontinuities discerned by earlier histories of protest, or whether they retained much of the character of earlier upheaval.
Based upon detailed case studies and drawing upon the most recent research, the book extends the focus of earlier studies of protest. It locates the origins of disorder within the concepts of constitutionalism and the free-born Englishman, and argues that older attitudes proved far more tenacious than many have allowed. Readership: Scholars and students of the 18th and early 19th century; social and political historians.
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Adrian Randall, Professor of English Social History, The University of Birmingham
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"a very wide and detailed survey, based on an impressive range of primary sources, and also utilizes the very numerous secondary works on the topic." - Anne L. Murphy, Agricultural History Review "a comprehensive and authoritative overview... the fullest picture to date of protest in its variant forms" - Rosemary Sweet, Parilamentary History "a rich feast of scholarshop, a wonderful, lucid culmination of three decades of scholarly endeavour." - Carl Griffin, Rurual History
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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
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