Primitive Rebels
Subtitle: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: October 1965
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1
ISBN-13: 9780393003284
First sentence: THIS essay consists of studies on the following subjects, all of which can be described as 'primitive' or 'archaic' forms of social agitation: banditry of the Robin Hood type, rural secret societies, various peasant revolutionary movements of the millenarian sort, pre-industrial urban 'mobs' and their riots, some labour religious sects and the use of ritual in early labour and revolutionary organizations.