Research Catalog

Title

Popular contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834 / Charles Tilly.

Author

Tilly, Charles

Publication

Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, c2005.

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Details

Description

xxix, 476 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Between 1750 and 1840 ordinary British people abandoned such time-honored forms of protest as collective seizures of grain, the sacking of buildings, public humiliation, and physical abuse in favor of marches, petition drives, public meetings, and other sanctioned routines of social movement politics. The change created - perhaps for the first time anywhere - mass participation in national politics." "Charles Tilly is the first to address the depth and significance of the transmutations in popular collective action during this period. As he unravels the story of thousands of popular struggles and their consequences, he illuminates the dynamic relationships among an industrializing, capitalizing, proletarianizing economy; a war-making, growing, increasingly interventionist state; and the internal history of contention that spawned such political entrepreneurs as Francis Place and Henry Hunt. Tilly's research rests on a catalog of more than 8,000 contentious gatherings described in British periodicals, plus ample documentation from British archives and historical monographs."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Dissenters > Great Britain > History > 18th century
• Dissenters > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Working class > Political activity > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Popular culture > Great Britain > History > 18th century
• Popular culture > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Working class > Political activity > Great Britain > History > 18th century

Note

• Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-463) and index.

Contents

1. From mutiny to mass mobilization -- 2. Contention under a magnifying glass -- 3. Capital, state, and class in Britain, 1750-1840 -- 4. Wilkes, Gordon, and popular vengeance, 1758-1788 -- 5. Revolution, war, and other struggles, 1789-1815 -- 6. State, class, and contention, 1816-1827 -- 7. Struggle and reform, 1828-1834 -- 8. From donkeying to demonstrating -- App. Major acts by the British government directly affecting popular association and collective action, 1750-1834.

ISBN

• 1594511209 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781594511202 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005048734

OCLC

• ocm58831627
• 58831627
• SCSB-5523861

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries