Adrian Randall and Andrew Charlesworth eds., Moral Economy and Popular Protest: Crowds, Conflict and Authority. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 2000. Pp. xiv, 280. $69.95. ISBN 0-312-22592-x.

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Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors The Moral Economy: Riots, Markets and Social Conflict A.Randall and A.Charlesworth The Food Riots of 1347 and the Medieval Moral Economy B.Sharp The Pragmatic Economy, the Politics of Provisions and the 'Invention' of the Food Riot Tradition in 1740 J.Bohstedt Moral Economy, Political Economy and Law D.Hay Food Riots Revisited: Popular Protest and Moral Economy in Nineteenth-Century India D.Arnold Moral Economy, Political Economy and the American Bourgeois Revolution E.Countryman Industrial Disputes, Wage Bargaining and the Moral Economy J.Rule The Moral Economy as an Argument and as a Fight J.C.Scott The Moral Economy of the English Countryside R.Wells Index