Languages of Reform in the Eighteenth Century
Languages of Reform in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Susan Richter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-10-18

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1000740528

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Societies perceive "Reform" or "Reforms" as substantial changes and significant breaks which must be well-justified. The Enlightenment brought forth the idea that the future was uncertain and could be shaped by human beings. This gave the concept of reform a new character and new fields of application. Those who sought support for their plans and actions needed to reflect, develop new arguments, and offer new reasons to address an anonymous public. This book aims to compile these changes under the heuristic term of "languages of reform." It analyzes the structures of communication regarding reforms in the 18th century through a wide variety of topics.

Protest and the politics of space and place, 1789–1848
Protest and the politics of space and place, 1789–1848

Author: Katrina Navickas

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2015-12-01

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 1784996270

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This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers’ rights in northern England. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. The book offers historical parallels for contemporary debates about protests in public space and democracy and anti-globalisation movements. In response to fears of revolution from 1789 to 1848, the British government and local authorities prohibited mass working-class political meetings and societies. Protesters faced the privatisation of public space. The ‘Peterloo Massacre’ of 1819 marked a turning point. Radicals, trade unions and the Chartists fought back by challenging their exclusion from public spaces, creating their own sites and eventually constructing their own buildings or emigrating to America. This book also uncovers new evidence of protest in rural areas of northern England, including rural Luddism. It will appeal to academic and local historians, as well as geographers and scholars of social movements in the UK, France and North America.

United Islands? The Languages of Resistance
United Islands? The Languages of Resistance

Author: John Kirk

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1317320700

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This is the first title in a new series called Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution. This series will appeal to those involved in English literary studies, as well as those working in fields of study that cover Enlightenment, Romanticism and Revolution in the last quarter of the eighteenth century.