Publication

2006 - Oxford University Press, Oxford, England

Language

English

Word Count

88,500 words, Guess

Page Count

354 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2006033006
  • Goodreads2467549

Classifications

  • LCCDA480 .R33 2006

Description

"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 the establishment of the militia, and religious riots, Riotous Assemblies re-engages the study of riot within a wider interpretation of the forces - social, economic, and political - which were transforming society. Based upon numerous detailed case studies and drawing upon the most recent research, the book extends the focus of earlier studies of protest and locates the origins of disorder within the concept of constitutionalism and the free-born Englishman."--book jacket.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Riotous assemblies: popular protest in Hanoverian EnglandOxford University Press2006-01-01

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