Popular contention in Great Britain : 1758–1834

Harvard University Press

1995

476 p.

9780674689800

Part 1 From mutiny to mass mobilization: contention in 1833; what changed and why?; what's at issue?; contending ideas; common action and shared understanding; repertoires of contention; insistent questions, possible answers; what's to come. Part 2 Contention under a magnifying glass: a change of repertoires; problems, sources, methods; a calendar of contention; numbering the struggles; forms of contention, old and new. Part 3 Capital, state and class in Britain, 1750-1840: proletarians, landlords and others; the growth of industry; urbanization; income and inequality; war and the British state; repression in Britain; popular participation in national politics; social movements and democracy. Part 4 Wilkes, Gordon and popular vengeance, 1758-1788: how Britain was changing; contention's flow; how the repertoire worked; against poorhouses and enclosures; workers' contention; mutations. Part 5 Revolution, war and other struggles, 1789-1815: associations in France and Britain; economy and demography; state, war and parliament; textures of contention; contentious issues; the issue is food; who contended, and how?; revolution and popular sovereignty. Part 6 State, class and contention, 1816-1827: economy and state, 1816-1827; from war to peace to contention; contentious contours; Queen Caroline; contentious actors; workers in action; contending with associations; political entrepreneurs, radicals and reformers. Part 7 Struggle and reform, 1828-1834: spurting population, expanding economy, consolidating state; repertoires for the 1830s; the political crisis of 1828-1834; embattled bobbies; swing; time for reform; workers; glimmers of revolution. Part 8 From donkeying to demonstrating: to retell the story; to meet in public; catholics in politics; toward explanation; social movements and demonstrations; national and international politics; foundations of popular contention; mass national politics and democracy. Appendices: sources and methods; major Acts by the British government directly affecting popular association and collective action, 1750-1834.

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