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Crowds and popular politics in early modern England / / John Walter



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Autore: Walter John <1948-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Crowds and popular politics in early modern England / / John Walter Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2006
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 pages)
Disciplina: 942.05
942.055
Soggetto topico: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General
Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Politics and government
Great Britain History
Soggetto non controllato: Civil War
English Revolution
Maldon
Oxfordshire rising
authority
collective protest
early modern England
grain riots
market integration
popular attitudes
popular political agency
popular political culture
popular politics
popular protest
population explosion
proto-royalists
public transcripts
regional specialisation
urbanisation
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 9780719074752; 9780719074752; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Crown and crowd: popular culture and popular protest in early modern England; Chapter 2 Grain riots and popular attitudesto the law: Maldon and the crisis of 1629; Chapter 3 The geography of food riots, 1585-16491; Chapter 4 A 'rising of the people'?The Oxfordshire rising of 1596; Chapter 5 The social economy of dearth in early modern England*; Chapter 6 The impact of the English Civil War on society: a world turned upside-down?
Chapter 7 Public transcripts, popular agency and the politics of subsistence in early modern EnglandIndex
Sommario/riassunto: Early modern England was marked by profound changes in economy, society, politics and religion. It is widely believed that the poverty and discontent which these changes often caused resulted in major rebellion and frequent 'riots'. Whereas the politics of the people have often been described as a 'many-headed monster'; spasmodic and violent, and the only means by which the people could gain expression in a highly hierarchical society and a state that denied them a political voice, the essays in this collection argue for the inherently political nature of popular protest through a series of st
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ISBN: 1-84779-397-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
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Serie: Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.