Crowds and popular politics in early modern England /
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?ma...
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| Language: | English |
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Manchester, UK ; New York : New York :
Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave,
2006
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| Series: | Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Reconstructing popular political culture in early modern England
- Crown and crowd : popular culture and popular protest in early modern England
- Grain riots and popular attitudes to the law : Maldon and the crisis of 1629
- The geography of food riots, 1585-1649
- A 'rising of the people'? The Oxfordshire rising of 1596
- The social economy of dearth in early modern England
- The impact of the English Civil War on society : a world turned upside-down?
- Public transcripts, popular agency and the politics of subsistence in early modern England.
