Popular Disturbances in England, 1700-1832 (Themes in British Social History)

John Stevenson has revised and expanded his standard but long-unobtainable work on Popular Protest and Public Order 1700-1870 in two self-sufficient volumes. The first (1700-1832) appeared in 1992; this is its keenly-awaited sequel. The greater part of it is entirely new, and brings the analysis of popular disturbance -- and its political and economic roots -- through to modern times. Tracing the theme through from the Chartists of the late 1830s to the British Union of Fascists in the late 1930s, it highlights both the changing agendas and the unchanging tensions that underlie social disorder. Abbreviations Used In References -- Preface To The First Edition -- Preface To The Second Edition -- Introduction. Disturbances, Riots, Crowds And Mobs ; Sources And Methods -- The Age Of Riots. The 'rage Of Party' ; The Age Of Oligarchy ; Religious Riots -- Manifold Disorders. Recruiting Riots ; Enclosures And Turnpikes ; Smugglers, Wreckers And Poachers ; Popular Disturbances And The Local Community -- Eighteenth-century London. The Sacheverell Riots And Popular Toryism In London ; The Age If Walpole ; 'independent' Westminster ; 'wilkes And Liberty!' ; The Gordon Riots -- Food Riots In England. The Location Of Food Disturbances ; The Participants ; Types Of Food Riot ; The Causes Of Food Riots : Prices And Disturbances ; Riots And Near-riots ; Famine Or Scarcity? ; The Decline Of Food Rioting -- Lab Our Disputes Before The Combination Laws. The Cloth-workers ; The Framework Knitters ; The Keelmen ; Seamen's Strikes ; The Colliers ; The Shipbuilding Trades ; The 1790s ; The Role Of Violence -- The Age Of Revolution. Church And King Riots ; Popular Radicalism And Popular Disorder ; Industrial Disputes Under The Combination Laws ; The Luddites -- London In The Age Of Revolution. The Westminster Elections ; The Impact Of The French Revolution ; The Anti-crimp-house Riots ; The Lcs And Opposition To The War ; Bread Or Blood! ; Despard And The Insurrectionary Tradition -- London And The Kingdom. Burdett And Liberty ; The Passing Of The Corn Laws ; The Insurrectionary Tradition : From Spa Fields To Cato Street ; The Queen Caroline Affair -- Unions And Labourers : Industrial And Agricultural Protest. The Rise Of The Unions ; Captain Swing -- The Reform Struggle. Waterloo To Peterloo ; Peterloo And After ; The Reform Crisis -- Conclusion. The Causes ; Frequency And Distribution ; Motives And Beliefs ; The Changing Face Of Protest ; The Threat Of Revolution -- Maps. Map 1. London In The Reign Of George I -- Map 2. London C. `1815. John Stevenson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. John Stevenson has revised and expanded his standard but long-unobtainable work on __Popular Protest and Public Order 1700-1870__ in two self-sufficient volumes. The first (1700-1832) appeared in 1992; this is its keenly-awaited sequel. The greater part of it is entirely new, and brings the analysis of popular disturbance -- and its political and economic roots -- through to modern times. Tracing the theme through from the Chartists of the late 1830s to the British Union of Fascists in the late 1930s, it highlights both the changing agendas and the unchanging tensions that underlie social disorder. The first edition of this text covered both the 18th and 19th centuries. This second edition closes the study in the 1830s, at a point where the Great Reform Act marked one climax of the political agitations of the late 18th century and early 19th centuries.