Walter Crowds and Popular Politics in Early Modern England

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84779-397-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walter, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Walter John:
John Walter is Professor of History at the University of EssexJohn Walter is Professor of History at the University of Essex