Popular disturbances in England, 1700-1832
The first edition of this text covered both the 18th and 19th centuries. This second edition closes the study in the 1830s, at a point where the Great Reform Act marked one climax of the political agitations of the late 18th century and early 19th centuries
History
xi, 347 pages : maps ; 22 cm
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Abbreviations used in references
Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Introduction. Disturbances, riots, crowds and mobs ; Sources and methods
The age of riots. The 'rage of party' ; The age of oligarchy ; Religious riots
Manifold disorders. Recruiting riots ; Enclosures and turnpikes ; Smugglers, wreckers and poachers ; Popular disturbances and the local community
Eighteenth-century London. The Sacheverell riots and popular Toryism in London ; The age if Walpole ; 'Independent' Westminster ; 'Wilkes and liberty!' ; The Gordon Riots
Food riots in England. The location of food disturbances ; The participants ; Types of food riot ; The causes of food riots : prices and disturbances ; Riots and near-riots ; Famine or scarcity? ; The decline of food rioting
Lab our disputes before the Combination Laws. The cloth-workers ; The framework knitters ; The keelmen ; Seamen's strikes ; The colliers ; The shipbuilding trades ; The 1790s ; The role of violence
The age of revolution. Church and King riots ; Popular radicalism and popular disorder ; Industrial disputes under the Combination Laws ; The Luddites
London in the age of revolution. The Westminster elections ; The impact of the French Revolution ; The anti-crimp-house riots ; The LCS and opposition to the war ; Bread or blood! ; Despard and the insurrectionary tradition
London and the kingdom. Burdett and liberty ; The passing of the Corn Laws ; The insurrectionary tradition : from Spa Fields to Cato Street ; The Queen Caroline Affair
Unions and labourers : industrial and agricultural protest. The rise of the unions ; Captain Swing
The reform struggle. Waterloo to Peterloo ; Peterloo and after ; The reform crisis
Conclusion. The causes ; Frequency and distribution ; Motives and beliefs ; The changing face of protest ; The threat of revolution
Maps. Map 1. London in the reign of George I
Map 2. London c. `1815