Title Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834

Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (519 pages) Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of Contents; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; ABBREVIATIONS; 1. FROM MUTINY TO MASS MOBILIZATION; Contention in 1833; What Changedy and Why?; What's at Issue?; Contending Ideas; Common Action and Shared Understanding; Repertoires of Contention; Insistent Questions, Possible Answers; What's to Come; 2. CONTENTION UNDER A MAGNIFYING GLASS; A Change of Repertoires; Problems, Sources, Methods; A Calendar of Contention; Numbering the Struggles; Forms of Contention, Old and New 3. CAPITAL, STATE, AND CLASS IN BRITAIN, 1750-1840Proletarians, Landlords, and Others; The Growth of Industry; Urbanization; Income and Inequality; War and the British State; Repression in Britain; Popular Participation in National Politics; Social Movements and Democracy; 4. WILKES, GORDON, AND POPULAR VENGEANCE, 1758-1788; How Britain Was Changing; Contentions Flow; How the Repertoire Worked; Against Poorhouses and Enclosures; Workers' Contention; Mutations; 5. REVOLUTION, WAR, AND OTHER STRUGGLES, 1789-1815; Associations in France and Britain; Economy and Demography State, War, and ParliamentTextures of Contention; Contentious Issues; The Issue Is Food; Who Contended, and How?; Revolution and Popular Sovereignty; 6. STATE, CLASS, AND CONTENTION, 1816-1827; Economy and State, 1816-1827; From War to Peace to Contention; Contentious Contours; Queen Caroline; Contentious Actors; Workers in Action; Contending with Associations; Political Entrepreneurs, Radicals, and Reformers; Conclusions; 7. STRUGGLE AND REFORM, 1828-1834; Spurting Population, Expanding Economy; Consolidating State; Repertoires for the 1830s; The Political Crisis of 1828-1834 Embattled BobbiesSwing; Time for Reform; Workers; Glimmers of Revolution; 8. FROM DONKEYING TO DEMONSTRATING; To Retell the Story; To Meet in Public; Catholics in Politics; Toward Explanation; Social Movements and Demonstrations; National and International Politics; Foundations of Popular Contention; Mass National Politics and Democracy; APPENDIX 1. SOURCES AND METHODS; APPENDIX 2. MAJOR ACTS BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT DIRECTLY AFFECTING POPULAR ASSOCIATION AND COLLECTIVE ACTION, 1750-1834; REFERENCES; INDEX 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."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-463) and index Notes Print version record Subject Workign class -- Political activity -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Workign class -- Political activity -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Dissenters -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Dissenters -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Dissenters Popular culture Arbeiter Unruhen Politisches Handeln Politische Reform Politischer Protest Collectieve acties (sociologie) Opstanden. Protestacties. Volk. Great Britain Großbritannien Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781315632698 1315632691

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