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Book Title
The Rural War: Captain Swing and the Politics of Protest
Publication Date
2015-03-01
ISBN
9780719097270
Subject Area
Business & Economics, History, Social Science
Publication Name
Rural War : Captain Swing and the Politics of Protest
Item Length
9.2 in
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Subject
Economic History, Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Europe / Great Britain / General, Sociology / Rural
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.8 in
Author
Carl J. Griffin
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
19.6 Oz
Number of Pages
344 Pages

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Beginning in Kent in the summer of 1830 before spreading throughout the country, the Swing Riots were the most dramatic and widespread rising of the English rural poor. Seeking an end to their immiseration, the protestors destroyed machines, demanded higher wages and more generous poor relief, and even frequently resorted to incendiarism to enforce their modest demands. But occurring against a backdrop of revolutions in continental Europe and a political crisis, Swing was perceived to represent a genuine challenge to the existing ruling order, provoking a bitter and bloody repression. This uprising is pivotal in understanding the impacts of industrialisation and commercialisation on rural English society, histories of the changing British state, social welfare, criminality and gender. In the first systematic re-assessment of Swing in over forty years, Carl Griffin deftly analyses it's form and scope, placing the movement into the context of social relations in the early nineteenth-century countryside. Focusing on the south-eastern heartland of Swing - the area where it started and lasted longest - it is shown that protests were more organised, widespread, intensive and politically-motivated than has hitherto been thought. The author shows that Swing was not only an attempt to materially improve the lot of the rural worker but also represented complex statements about the nature of authority and the politics of rural life. Based on meticulous original research, The rural war offers a strikingly new and vivid account of this defining moment in British history. This book will become essential reading for anyone with an interest both in the history of the English countryside and protest history: specialists, students and general readers alike.

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Publisher
Manchester University Press
ISBN-10
0719097274
ISBN-13
9780719097270
eBay Product ID (ePID)
203405620

Product Key Features

Author
Carl J. Griffin
Publication Name
Rural War : Captain Swing and the Politics of Protest
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Economic History, Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Europe / Great Britain / General, Sociology / Rural
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Business & Economics, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
344 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
19.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
College Audience
Lc Classification Number
Da535.G7 2015
Reviews
Meticulously researched'Mark Metcalf,Tribune, December 2012'Griffin has provided a compelling reappraisal of Swing which is a major contribution to geographies of rural protest. It also offers a vision for a post-Thompsonian way of thinking about the forms of subaltern political activity in English countryside.'Dave Featherstone, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, Meticulously researched' -- Mark Metcalf, Tribune, December 2012Griffin has provided a compelling reappraisal of Swing which is a major contribution to geographies of rural protest. It also offers a vision for a post-Thompsonian way of thinking about the forms of subaltern political activity in English countryside'Dave Featherstone, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, Meticulously researched' -- Mark Metcalf, Tribune, December 2012 Griffin has provided a compelling reappraisal of Swing which is a major contribution to geographies of rural protest. It also offers a vision for a post-Thompsonian way of thinking about the forms of subaltern political activity in English countryside'Dave Featherstone, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, Meticulously researched' Mark Metcalf,Tribune, December 2012 'Griffin has provided a compelling reappraisal of Swing which is a major contribution to geographies of rural protest. It also offers a vision for a post-Thompsonian way of thinking about the forms of subaltern political activity in English countryside.' Dave Featherstone, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography
Table of Content
Introduction Part I 1 Rough men, pleasant histories 2 Life and labour on and off the parish 3 Something before Swing or Swing itself? Part II 4 Movement dynamics and diffusion 5 Movement mechanisms Part III 6 The politics of the parish 7 Radical participatory politics 8 The gender politics of Swing Part IV 9 Suppressing Swing 10 Swing and social policy 11 Something after Swing? Conclusions Appendix Index
Copyright Date
2012
Dewey Decimal
942.23075
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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