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This collection of essays offers a radical re-evaluation of the nature of crowds and popular protest in the early modern period

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Introduction: Reconstructing popular political culture in early modern England
1. Crown and crowd: popular culture and popular protest in early modern England
2. Grain riots and popular attitudes to the law: Maldon and the crisis of 1629
3. The geography of food riots, 1585-1649
4. A ‘rising of the people’? The Oxfordshire rising of 1596
5. The social economy of dearth in early modern England
6. The impact of the English Civil War on society: a world turned upside-down?
7. Public transcripts, popular agency and the politics of subsistence in early modern England
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 8/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719082818, 978-0719082818
      ISBN10: 0719082811

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This collection of essays offers a radical re-evaluation of the nature of crowds and popular protest in the early modern period

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Reconstructing popular political culture in early modern England
      1. Crown and crowd: popular culture and popular protest in early modern England
      2. Grain riots and popular attitudes to the law: Maldon and the crisis of 1629
      3. The geography of food riots, 1585-1649
      4. A ‘rising of the people’? The Oxfordshire rising of 1596
      5. The social economy of dearth in early modern England
      6. The impact of the English Civil War on society: a world turned upside-down?
      7. Public transcripts, popular agency and the politics of subsistence in early modern England
      Index

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