Crowd actions in Britain and France from the Middle Ages to the modern world. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael T. Davis, Griffith University, Australia.
• Editors: Davis, Michael T, 1969-
• Contents: Contents; Introduction: The Arc of Violence: Riots, Disturbances of the Peace, Public Protests & Crowd Actions in History; Jack Fruchtman, Jr; 1. Heresy, Rebellion and Utopian Courage: The English Peasant Rising of 1381; Mark O'Brien; 2. Riot and Religion in Sixteenth-Century France; Penny Roberts; 3. Protest and Rebellion in Seventeenth-Century France; William Beik; 4. The Politics of Protest in Seventeenth-Century England; John Walter; 5. Provisioning, Power, and Popular Protest from the Seventeenth to the French Revolution and Beyond; Cynthia A. Bouton; 6. Food Riots and Provision Politics in Early-Modern England & France, the Irish Famine and World War I; John Bohstedt; 7. Nights of Fire: The Gordon Riots of 1780 and the Politics of War; Nicholas Rogers; 8. Reformers No Rioters: British Radicalism and Mob Identity in the 1790s; Michael T. Davis; 9. Machine-Breaking and the 'Threat from Below' in Great Britain and France during the Early Industrial Revolution; Jeff Horn; 10. Militarization and Collective Action in Great Britain, 1815-1820; Gordon Pentland; 11. The Revolutionary Century? Revolts in Nineteenth-Century France; Peter McPhee; 12. Red May Days: Hopes and Fears in Europe in the 1890s; Chris Wrigley; 13. 1968: Politics Takes to the Pavement; Brett Bowden; 14. Making Other Worlds Possible? Riots, Movement and Counter-Globalisation; Tadzio Mueller, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, and Sian Sullivan; 15. Riots in Thatcher's Britain; Peter Hayes; 16. France's Burning Issue: Understanding the Urban Riots of November 2005; Raphaël Canet, Laurent Pech, and Maura Stewart
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (320 pages)
• Subjects: 363.32/30941; Europe/France; Riots -- Great Britain -- History; Riots -- France -- History; Crowds -- Great Britain -- History; Crowds -- France -- History; Social History; Revolutionary; Modern/General; Social & cultural history; British & Irish history; Political activism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137557490; 1137557494
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.