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The Politics of Provisions Food Riots, Moral Economy, and Market Transition in England, c. 15501850.

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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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Main Author: Bohstedt, John
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2010.
Subjects:
Food riots > England > History.
Food prices > Moral and ethical aspects > England > History.
Social conflict > England > History.
Protest movements > England > History.
Electronic books.
ISBN:9781409408451
1409408450
Local Note:Ebook Library
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; General Editor's Preface; Lists of Figures, Tables and Maps; Acknowledgments; 1 'We'd Rather be Hanged than Starved!': The Politics of Provisions; 2 The Genesis of Provision Politics, 15801650; 3 The Recession of Provision Politics, 16501739: A Political Nation of Producers; 4 Bolting Mills and Marketplaces: The Formative Generation of Provision Politics, 17401775; 5 A Viable, but Doomed, Provision Politics, 17821812; 6 The Decadence of the Politics of Provisions, 181267; 7 Conclusions: Provision Politics from the Book of Orders to World War I.
  • Bibliography of Works CitedIndex.

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