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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789658803321

Autore

Rule John <1944-2011, >

Titolo

Crime, protest, and popular politics in southern England, 1740-1850 / / John Rule and Roger Wells

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Rio Grande, Ohio : , : The Hambledon Press, , 1997

©1997

ISBN

1-283-20218-2

9786613202185

0-8264-6228-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Disciplina

306/.0942

Soggetti

Popular culture - England, Southern - History - 18th century

Protest movements - England, Southern - History - 19th century

Protest movements - England, Southern - History - 18th century

Popular culture - England, Southern - History - 19th century

Crime - England, Southern - History - 18th century

Crime - England, Southern - History - 19th century

England, Southern Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Crime, Protest and Radicalism; 2 The Revolt of the South West, 1800-1: A Study in English Popular Protest; 3 The Perfect Wage System? Tributing in the Cornish Mines; 4 The Chartist Mission to Cornwall; 5 Richard Spurr of Truro: Small-Town Radical; 6 Resistance to the New Poor Law in the Rural South; 7 Southern Chartism; 8 Social Crime in the Rural South in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; 9 Crime and Protest in a Country Parish: Burwash, 1790-1850; 10 The Manifold Causes of Rural Crime: Sheep-Stealing in England, c. 1740-1840

Index

Sommario/riassunto

Southern England has been studied considerably less than the industrializing north and midlands in the debate on the standard of living in the period up to 1850. Yet it is becoming clear that it was in



the south and in the countryside that the greatest poverty and deprivation was to be found. These essays examine responses to the struggle to live. The responses ranged from, at the most extreme, sheep-stealing and incendiarism to joining in food riots in an attempt to impose a ""moral economy"". More sustained protest is to be seen in passive and sometimes active resistance to authority, and in