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The last rising of the agricultural labourers : rural life and protest in nineteenth-century England / Barry Reay.

Title
The last rising of the agricultural labourers : rural life and protest in nineteenth-century England / Barry Reay.
Author
Reay, Barry
Publication
Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press, 1990.

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Description
xiii, 226 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
The Hernhill Rising of 1838 was the last battle fought on English soil, the last revolt against the New Poor Law, and England's millenarian rising. Fought in a corner of rural Kent, it was also the last rising of the agricultural laborers. In this comprehensive analysis, Reay draws on intensive research in local archives to provide a critical study of the background of the rising and its social context. He presents a unique casestudy of popular mobilization in nineteenth-century England, producing a vivid portrait of the daily existence of the farm laborer and life in the village. Exploring the wider context of agrarian relations, rural reform, protest, and control, this study will be of special interest to students and scholars of modern British history and social, agrarian, and local historians.
Subject
  • Geschichte 1800-1900
  • Geschichte 1838
  • 1800-1899
  • Agricultural laborers > England > Kent > Political activity > History > 19th century
  • Poor laws > England > Kent > History > 19th century
  • Villages > England > Kent > History > 19th century
  • Hernhill (England) > History
  • England > Rural conditions > 19th century
  • Kent (England) > History
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Part I. The setting -- 1. Structures -- 2. Labouring life -- 3. conflict and discontents -- Part II. The rising -- 4. The rising -- 5. Courtenay -- 6. The Rioters -- Part III. The aftermath -- 7. Repercussions -- 8. Epilogue -- Part IV. Implications -- 9. Rural life and protest in Nineteenth-Century England.
ISBN
0198201877
LCCN
^^^90031430^
OCLC
  • 21118515
  • SCSB-12364928
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library