Protest And The Politics Of Space And Place 1789-1848 University Press Scholarship Online

This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers' rights in northern England. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. The book offers historical parallels for contemporary debates about protests in public space and democracy and anti-globalisation movements. In response to fears of revolution from 1789 to 1848, the British government and local authorities prohibited mass working-class political meetings and societies. Protesters faced the privatisation of public space. The 'Peterloo Massacre' of 1819 marked a turning point. Radicals, trade unions and the Chartists fought back by challenging their exclusion from public spaces, creating their own sites and eventually constructing their own buildings or emigrating to America. This book also uncovers new evidence of protest in rural areas of northern England, including rural Luddism. It will appeal to academic and local historians, as well as geographers and scholars of social movements in the UK, France and North America. This Book Examines The Rise Of Mass Movements For Democracy And Workers' Rights In Northern England. It Surveys Movements Throughout The Whole Period From The First Working-class Radical Societies In The 1790s To Trade Unions And Chartists In The 1840s. It Focuses On Protesters' Use Of Space And Defense Of Place--back Cover. Preface -- Introduction -- I. Spaces Of Exclusion, 1789-1830. Spaces Of Exclusion And Intrusion In The 1790s ; Defending The Liberty To Meet, 1795-1819 ; Peterloo And The Changing Definition Of Seditious Assembly -- Vignette 1: Radical Locales -- Ii. Spaces Of The Body Politic In The 1830s And 1840s. Prelude : The Reform Crisis, 1830-2 ; Embodied Spaces And Violent Protest ; Contesting New Administrative Geographies In The 1830s And 1840s -- Vignette 2 : Processions -- Constructing New Spaces -- Iii. Region, Neighbourhood And The Meaning Of Place. The Liberty Of The Landscape ; Rural Resistance ; Making Moscows, 1839-48 -- Vignette 3 : New Horizons In America -- Conclusion. Katrina Navickas. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 315-323) And Index. Cover 1 Protest and the politics of space and place, 178 9–1848 2 Contents 6 List of illustrations 8 Preface 12 Acknowledgements 16 List of abbreviations 18 Introduction 20 I Spaces of exclusion, 1789–1830 40 1 Spaces of exclusion and intrusion in the 1790s 42 2 Defending the liberty to meet, 1795–1819 70 3 Peterloo and the changing definition of seditious assembly 101 Vignette 1: Radical locales 125 II Spaces of the body politic in the 1830s and 1840s 138 Prelude: The reform crisis, 1830–2 140 4 Embodied spaces and violent protest 149 5 Contesting new administrative geographies in the 1830s and 1840s 173 Vignette 2: Processions 196 6 Constructing new spaces 208 III Region, neighbourhood and the meaning of place 240 7 The liberty of the landscape 242 8 Rural resistance 270 9 Making Moscows, 1839–48 296 Vignette 3: New ho rizons in America 325 Conclusion 330 Select bibliography 334 Index 343 IntroductionPart I: Spaces of exclusion, 1789-18301. Spaces of exclusion and intrusion in the 1790s2. Defending the liberty to meet, 1795-18193. Peterloo and the changing definition of seditious assemblyVignette 1: Radical localesPart II: Spaces of the body politic in the 1830s and 1840sPrelude: The Reform crisis, 1830-24. Embodied spaces and violent protest5. Contesting new administrative geographiesVignette 2: Processions6. Constructing new spacesPart III: Region, neighbourhood and the meaning of place7. The liberty of the landscape8. Rural resistance9. Making Moscows, 1839-48Vignette 3: New horizons in AmericaConclusionSelect bibliographyIndex -- . An accessible and innovative analysis of how political groups used and contested spaces and places in protest. It uses a wide range of interesting sources, from Home Office correspondence to local magistrates, diaries and autobiographies, local newspapers, together with spatial analysis of sites of political protest plotted on historical maps. -- .