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

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: The Arc of Violence: Riots, Disturbances of the Peace, Public Protests and Crowd Actions in History....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Heresy, Rebellion and Utopian Courage: The English Peasant Rising of 1381....Pages 17-30
Riot and Religion in Sixteenth-Century France....Pages 31-42
Protest and Rebellion in Seventeenth-Century France....Pages 43-57
The Politics of Protest in Seventeenth-Century England....Pages 58-79
Provisioning, Power and Popular Protest from the Seventeenth Century to the French Revolution and Beyond....Pages 80-100
Food Riots and the Politics of Provisions in Early-Modern England and France, the Irish Famine and World War I....Pages 101-123
Nights of Fire: The Gordon Riots of 1780 and the Politics of War....Pages 124-145
‘Reformers No Rioters’: British Radicalism and Mob Identity in the 1790s....Pages 146-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Machine-Breaking and the ‘Threat from Below’ in Great Britain and France during the Early Industrial Revolution....Pages 165-178
Militarization and Collective Action in Great Britain, 1815–20....Pages 179-192
The Revolutionary Century? Revolts in Nineteenth-Century France....Pages 193-207
Red May Days: Fears and Hopes in Europe in the 1890s....Pages 208-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
1968: Politics Takes to the Pavement....Pages 225-238
Making Other Worlds Possible? Riots, Movement and Counter-Globalisation....Pages 239-255
Riots in Thatcher’s Britain....Pages 256-269
France’s Burning Issue: Understanding the Urban Riots of November 2005....Pages 270-292
Back Matter....Pages 293-301