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Crowd Actions in Britain and France from the Middle Ages to the Modern World

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  1. Michael T. Davis

    1. Griffith University, Australia

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: The Arc of Violence: Riots, Disturbances of the Peace, Public Protests and Crowd Actions in History

    1. Introduction: The Arc of Violence: Riots, Disturbances of the Peace, Public Protests and Crowd Actions in History

      • Jack Fruchtman Jr
      Pages 1-13

  3. Riots from the Middle Ages to the Age of Revolution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Heresy, Rebellion and Utopian Courage: The English Peasant Rising of 1381

      • Mark O’Brien
      Pages 17-30

    3. Riot and Religion in Sixteenth-Century France

      • Penny Roberts
      Pages 31-42

    4. Protest and Rebellion in Seventeenth-Century France

      • William Beik
      Pages 43-57

    5. The Politics of Protest in Seventeenth-Century England

      • John Walter
      Pages 58-79

    6. Provisioning, Power and Popular Protest from the Seventeenth Century to the French Revolution and Beyond

      • Cynthia A. Bouton
      Pages 80-100

    7. Food Riots and the Politics of Provisions in Early-Modern England and France, the Irish Famine and World War I

      • John Bohstedt
      Pages 101-123

    8. Nights of Fire: The Gordon Riots of 1780 and the Politics of War

      • Nicholas Rogers
      Pages 124-145

    9. ‘Reformers No Rioters’: British Radicalism and Mob Identity in the 1790s

      • Michael T. Davis
      Pages 146-162

  5. Riots in the Modern World

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223
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    2. 1968: Politics Takes to the Pavement

      • Brett Bowden
      Pages 225-238

    3. Making Other Worlds Possible? Riots, Movement and Counter-Globalisation

      • Tadzio Mueller, Sian Sullivan
      Pages 239-255

    4. Riots in Thatcher’s Britain

      • Peter Hayes
      Pages 256-269
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Crowd Actions in Britain and France from the Middle Ages to the Modern World explores the lively and often violent world of the crowd, examining some of the key flashpoints in the history of popular action. From the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 to the Paris riots in 2005 and 2006, this volume reveals what happens when people gather together in protest.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Griffith University, Australia

    Michael T. Davis

About the editor

Michael T. Davis is Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Griffith University, Australia. His publications include Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775-1848 (2000); London Corresponding Society (2002); Newgate in Revolution: An Anthology of Radical Prison Literature in the Age of Revolution (ed. with I. McCalman and C. Parolin, 2005); Unrespectable Radicals? Popular Politics in the Age of Reform (ed. with P. A. Pickering, 2008); and Terror: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism in Europe, 1605 to the Future (ed. with B. Bowden, 2008).

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