Moral Economy and Popular Protest
Subtitle: Crowds, Conflict and Authority
Contributors: Adrian Randall (Editor); Andrew Charlesworth (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: November 20, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780312225926
Subjects: Collective Behavior; Social Movements; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Politics/International Relations; Economic History; Political Science / Economic Policy; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Crowds; History; Protest movements; Riots
First sentence: In 1971 Past and Present published a paper by E. P. Thompson which was to become seminal for a number of areas of research in social history and social anthropology, for 'The moral economy of the English crowd in the eighteenth century' fundamentally redefined the way in which social historians investigated and interpreted popular protest.