Crowds, Culture, and Politics in Georgian Britain

by Nicholas Rogers

Crowds have long been a telling feature of the historical landscape. Here, Rogers examines the changing role and character of crowds in Georgian politics through an investigation of some of the major crowd interventions in the years 1714 to 1821. He shows how the topsy-turvy interventions of the Jacobite era gave way to the more disciplined parades of Hanoverian England, a transition shaped by the effects of war, revolution, and the expansion of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198201729
• ISBN13: 9780198201724
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"