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

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Contents Introduction: The Arc of Violence: Riots, Disturbances of the Peace, Public Protests & Crowd Actions in History Jack Fruchtman, Jr. 1. Heresy, Rebellion and Utopian Courage: The English Peasant Rising of 1381 Mark O'Brien 2. Riot and Religion in Sixteenth-Century France Penny Roberts 3. Protest and Rebellion in Seventeenth-Century France William Beik 4. The Politics of Protest in Seventeenth-Century England John Walter 5. Provisioning, Power, and Popular Protest from the Seventeenth to the French Revolution and Beyond Cynthia A. Bouton 6. Food Riots and Provision Politics in Early-Modern England & France, the Irish Famine and World War I John Bohstedt 7. Nights of Fire: The Gordon Riots of 1780 and the Politics of War Nicholas Rogers 8. Reformers No Rioters: British Radicalism and Mob Identity in the 1790s Michael T. Davis 9. Machine-Breaking and the 'Threat from Below' in Great Britain and France during the Early Industrial Revolution Jeff Horn 10. Militarization and Collective Action in Great Britain, 1815-1820 Gordon Pentland 11. The Revolutionary Century? Revolts in Nineteenth-Century France Peter McPhee 12. Red May Days: Hopes and Fears in Europe in the 1890s Chris Wrigley 13. 1968: Politics Takes to the Pavement Brett Bowden 14. Making Other Worlds Possible? Riots, Movement and Counter-Globalisation Tadzio Mueller, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, and Sian Sullivan 15. Riots in Thatcher's Britain Peter Hayes 16. France's Burning Issue: Understanding the Urban Riots of November 2005 Raphael Canet, Laurent Pech, and Maura Stewart