Crime, protest, and popular politics in southern England, 1740-1850:
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1. Verfasser: Rule, John (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Hambledon Press 1997
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
1. Crime, Protest and Radicalism / John Rule and Roger Wells -- 2. The Revolt of the South West, 1800-1: A Study in English Popular Protest / Roger Wells -- 3. The Perfect Wage System? Tributing in the Cornish Mines / John Rule -- 4. The Chartist Mission to Cornwall / John Rule -- 5. Richard Spurr of Truro: Small-Town Radical / John Rule -- 6. Resistance to the New Poor Law in the Rural South / Roger Wells -- 7. Southern Chartism / Roger Wells -- 8. Social Crime in the Rural South in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries / John Rule -- 9. Crime and Protest in a Country Parish: Burwash, 1790-1850 / Roger Wells -- 10. The Manifold Causes of Rural Crime: Sheep-Stealing in England, c. 1740-1840 / John Rule
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
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ISBN:9780826462282
0826462286
1852850760
9781852850760

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