Crowds and popular politics in early modern England [[electronic resource] /] / John Walter
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| Autore: |
Walter John <1948->
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| Titolo: |
Crowds and popular politics in early modern England [[electronic resource] /] / John Walter
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| Pubblicazione: | Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2006 |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Crowds and popular politics in early modern England |
| ISBN: | 1-84779-397-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786205803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.