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

Rule, John; Wells, Roger

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ISBN 10: 1852850760 ISBN 13: 9781852850760

Verlag: Continnuum-3PL, 1997

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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.

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• Verlag: Continnuum-3PL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1852850760
• ISBN 13: 9781852850760
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 266