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    Riotous Assemblies by Randall, Adrian;

    Popular Protest in Hanoverian England

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 30 November 2006

    • ISBN 9780199259908
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages368 pages
    • Size 240x160x30 mm
    • Weight 700 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Riotous Assemblies examines eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England through the lens of popular disorder. Adrian Randall shows how conflicts and tensions in 'high' politics contributed to a potent national sense of freedom and right, giving ordinary people the confidence to respond vigorously to any threat to their customary liberties. He demonstrates how the rulers of eighteenth-century England were forced to manage disorder through a mixture of judicious theatre and periodic repression, and how economic and social transformation led to fundamental changes in the nature of popular protest.

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    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.

    ...an intergrated account of politics, war, and industrialisation during the Napolionic period...thought provoking...

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    Table of Contents:

    READING THE RIOT
    POWER, AUTHORITY AND THE RIOT ACT
    PROTESTING PEOPLE
    FOOD, MARKET CUSTOM AND PROTEST
    SETTING THE PRICE: FOOD RIOTS BEFORE 1790
    INDUSTRIAL PROTEST, CUSTOM AND LAW
    COUNTRY PEOPLE: POPULAR PROTEST IN THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE
    NOBS AND MOBS: POLITICAL DISORDERS
    THE REPUDIATION OF THE MORAL ECONOMY
    BEFORE THE LUDDITES: MACHINERY, REGULATION AND THE STATE
    ENGINES OF MISCHIEF: THE LUDDITE DISTURBANCES OF 1811-12
    RIOTOUS ASSEMBLIES

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