An Atlas of Rural Protest in Britain 1548-1900
An Atlas of Rural Protest in Britain 1548-1900

Author: Andrew Charlesworth

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-06

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1351625756

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The outbreaks and collective violence arising from the tensions existing within society have long been themes in the study of British social history. This book, first published in 1983, attempts to survey the whole range of these rural riots, to compare and contrast them, and to draw general conclusions. Seventy-five maps are included in this volume, each with an accompanying commentary written by an authority on the particular subject. Taken together, the maps show how the distribution of protest changed over time, how particular forms of protest – riots connected with land, with food and with labour – altered as Britain developed from a predominantly feudal to a prominently capitalist society. This title will be of interest to students of history.

Dearth, Public Policy and Social Disturbance in England 1550-1800
Dearth, Public Policy and Social Disturbance in England 1550-1800

Author: R. B. Outhwaite

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-09-14

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780521557801

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This concise survey examines the consequences of periods of dearth in England, in the years between 1550 and 1800. By the sixteenth century, periods of dearth no longer produced marked rises in mortality, as had happened previously. Instead, the ordinary people appear to have become more politically active, and an increase in the incidence of widespread rioting has been connected to these periods that followed serious harvest failure. Over the past twenty years there has been a dramatic increase in interest among scholars in these themes. This book surveys the enormous volume of literature that has been generated on the subject, explores interconnections, and draws attention to problems still outstanding. Particular attention is paid to a key factor in understanding food riots - namely, changes in government policy towards grain provisioning in these periods of dearth.

Popular Cultures in England 1550-1750
Popular Cultures in England 1550-1750

Author: Barry Reay

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-17

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1317872630

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Explores the important aspects of popular cultures during the period 1550 to 1750. Barry Reay investigates the dominant beliefs and attitudes across all levels of society as well as looking at different age, gender and religious groups.

The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Eighteenth Century, 1688-1820
The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Eighteenth Century, 1688-1820

Author: Jeremy Gregory

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 0415378826

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"Brings together in a single volume chonological, statistical, tabular and bibliographical information covering all the major aspects of eighteenth-century British history from the 'Glorious' Revolution of 1688-89 to the death of George III - the 'long' eighteenth century"--Back cover.

Women, Crime and Justice in England since 1660
Women, Crime and Justice in England since 1660

Author: Shani D'Cruze

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1137057203

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Shani D'Cruze and Louise A. Jackson provide students with a lively overview of women's relationship to the criminal justice system in England, exploring key debates in the regulation of 'respectable' and 'deviant' femininities over the last 4 centuries. Major issues include: - Attitudes towards murder and infanticide - Prostitution - The decline of witchcraft belief - Sexual violence - The 'girl delinquent' - Theft and fraud. The volume also examines women's participation in illegal forms of protest and political activism, their experience of penal regimes as well as strategies of resistance, and their involvement in occupations associated with criminal justice itself. Assuming that men and women cannot be studied in isolation, D'Cruze and Jackson make reference to recent studies of masculinity and comment on the ways in which relations between men and women have been understood and negotiated across time. Featuring examples drawn from a rich range of sources such as court records, autobiographies, literature and film, this is an ideal introduction to an increasingly popular area of study.

Popular Disturbances in England 1700-1832
Popular Disturbances in England 1700-1832

Author: John Stevenson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-06

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1317897137

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John Stevenson has revised and expanded his standard but long-unobtainable work on Popular Protest and Public Order 1700-1870 in two self-sufficient volumes. The first (1700-1832) appeared in 1992; this is its keenly-awaited sequel. The greater part of it is entirely new, and brings the analysis of popular disturbance -- and its political and economic roots -- through to modern times. Tracing the theme through from the Chartists of the late 1830s to the British Union of Fascists in the late 1930s, it highlights both the changing agendas and the unchanging tensions that underlie social disorder.

Democracy, Capitalism and Empire in Late Victorian Britain, 1885–1910
Democracy, Capitalism and Empire in Late Victorian Britain, 1885–1910

Author: E. Spencer Wellhofer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1996-05-23

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1349246883

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Late Victorian Britain witnessed three challenges to its eighteenth-century Republican Ideal: democracy, capitalism and ethnic nationalism. Calling upon the languages and debates of the period, the book examines contending images of the social order with new data analytic techniques and information. Joining the contextual study of history to advanced analytic techniques refutes standard interpretations and provides a more complete portrait of the period. The conclusions on democratic transition have important implications for understanding today's efforts to reap democracy's rewards.

Contentious Performances
Contentious Performances

Author: Charles Tilly

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-08-04

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1316582574

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How can we get inside popular collective struggles and explain how they work? Contentious Performances presents a distinctive approach to analyzing such struggles, drawing especially on incomparably rich evidence from Great Britain between 1758 and 1834. The book accomplishes three main things. First, it presents a logic and method for describing contentious events, occasions on which people publicly make consequential claims on each other. Second, it shows how that logic yields superior explanations of the dynamics in such events, both individually and in the aggregate. Third, it illustrates its methods and arguments by means of detailed analyses of contentious events in Great Britain from 1758 to 1834.

Enclosure
Enclosure

Author: Gary Fields

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2017-09-05

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 0520964926

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Enclosure marshals bold new arguments about the nature of the conflict in Israel/Palestine. Gary Fields examines the dispossession of Palestinians from their land—and Israel’s rationale for seizing control of Palestinian land—in the contexts of a broad historical analysis of power and space and of an enduring discourse about land improvement. Focusing on the English enclosures (which eradicated access to common land across the English countryside), Amerindian dispossession in colonial America, and Palestinian land loss, Fields shows how exclusionary landscapes have emerged across time and geography. Evidence that the same moral, legal, and cartographic arguments were used by enclosers of land in very different historical environments challenges Israel’s current claim that it is uniquely beleaguered. This comparative framework also helps readers in the United States and the United Kingdom understand the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in the context of their own histories.