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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815475103321

Autore

Tilly Charles.

Titolo

Popular contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834 / / Charles Tilly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-25380-9

1-315-63269-1

1-317-25379-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (519 p.)

Disciplina

322.440941

Soggetti

Working class - Political activity - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Working class - Political activity - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Popular culture - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Popular culture - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Dissenters - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Dissenters - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2005 by Paradigm Publishers"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of Contents; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; ABBREVIATIONS; 1. FROM MUTINY TO MASS MOBILIZATION; Contention in 1833; What Changedy and Why?; What's at Issue?; Contending Ideas; Common Action and Shared Understanding; Repertoires of Contention; Insistent Questions, Possible Answers; What's to Come; 2. CONTENTION UNDER A MAGNIFYING GLASS; A Change of Repertoires; Problems, Sources, Methods; A Calendar of Contention; Numbering the Struggles; Forms of Contention, Old and New

3. CAPITAL, STATE, AND CLASS IN BRITAIN, 1750-1840Proletarians, Landlords, and Others; The Growth of Industry; Urbanization; Income and Inequality; War and the British State; Repression in Britain; Popular Participation in National Politics; Social Movements and Democracy; 4. WILKES, GORDON, AND POPULAR VENGEANCE, 1758-1788; How Britain Was Changing; Contentions Flow; How the Repertoire Worked; Against Poorhouses and Enclosures; Workers' Contention; Mutations; 5. REVOLUTION, WAR, AND OTHER STRUGGLES, 1789-1815; Associations



in France and Britain; Economy and Demography

State, War, and ParliamentTextures of Contention; Contentious Issues; The Issue Is Food; Who Contended, and How?; Revolution and Popular Sovereignty; 6. STATE, CLASS, AND CONTENTION, 1816-1827; Economy and State, 1816-1827; From War to Peace to Contention; Contentious Contours; Queen Caroline; Contentious Actors; Workers in Action; Contending with Associations; Political Entrepreneurs, Radicals, and Reformers; Conclusions; 7. STRUGGLE AND REFORM, 1828-1834; Spurting Population, Expanding Economy;  Consolidating State; Repertoires for the 1830s; The Political Crisis of 1828-1834

Embattled BobbiesSwing; Time for Reform; Workers; Glimmers of Revolution; 8. FROM DONKEYING TO DEMONSTRATING; To Retell the Story; To Meet in Public; Catholics in Politics; Toward Explanation; Social Movements and Demonstrations; National and International Politics; Foundations of Popular Contention; Mass National Politics and Democracy; APPENDIX 1. SOURCES AND METHODS; APPENDIX 2. MAJOR ACTS BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT DIRECTLY AFFECTING POPULAR ASSOCIATION AND COLLECTIVE ACTION, 1750-1834; REFERENCES; INDEX