Riotous assemblies
Subtitle: popular protest in Hanoverian England
By: Adrian Randall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780199259908
Subjects: Riots -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Violence -- England -- History -- 18th century; Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [332]-344) and index