The Politics of Provisions Food Riots, Moral Economy, and Market Transition in England, c. 15501850.
The 'politics of provisions' - forceful negotiations over sustenance - has created surprising contests in world history, particularly in times of market transition. In England a 'politics of provisions' evolved in a dialogue between popular riots and paternalist subsistence polic...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Farnham :
Ashgate Pub.,
2010.
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| ISBN: | 9781409408451 1409408450 |
| Local Note: | Ebook Library |
| Summary: | The 'politics of provisions' - forceful negotiations over sustenance - has created surprising contests in world history, particularly in times of market transition. In England a 'politics of provisions' evolved in a dialogue between popular riots and paternalist subsistence policies from Tudor dearths to the Victorian embrace of free-market doctrines. Hence provision politics was a core ingredient of both state-formation and of the emergence of the first market economy and society in England. This book is the first full-scale critical revision of E.P. Thompson's seminal model of the 'moral eco. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (325 pages). |
| Series: | History of retailing and consumption.
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