Crime, Protest and Popular Politics in Southern England, 1740-1850

Name: Crime, Protest and Popular Politics in Southern England, 1740-1850
Brand: Continnuum-3PL
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By John Rule

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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, and in particular in the opposition to the introduction of the New Poor Law of 1834. Finally the appeal yet limitations of Chartism in the south is demonstrated.

Product details

Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 266
Release Date:: 1997-06-01
Publication Date:: 1997-07-01
Publisher:: Continnuum-3PL
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1852850760
ISBN13:: 9781852850760
Weight:: 567 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 19 cm

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