Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834

by Charles Tilly

Book Overview

Between 1750 and 1840 ordinary British people abandoned such time-honored forms of protest as collective seizures of grain, the sacking of buildings, public humiliation, and physical abuse in favor of marches, petition drives, public meetings, and other sanctioned routines of social movement politics. The change created--perhaps for the first time anywhere--mass participation in national politics.

Charles Tilly is the first to address the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674689801
• ISBN13: 9780674689800
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.7" x 9.6"