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- Protest and the politics of space and place, 1789–1848
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Manchester University Press
summary
This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers’ rights in northern England. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. The book offers historical parallels for contemporary debates about protests in public space and democracy and anti-globalisation movements. In response to fears of revolution from 1789 to 1848, the British government and local authorities prohibited mass working-class political meetings and societies. Protesters faced the privatisation of public space. The ‘Peterloo Massacre’ of 1819 marked a turning point. Radicals, trade unions and the Chartists fought back by challenging their exclusion from public spaces, creating their own sites and eventually constructing their own buildings or emigrating to America. This book also uncovers new evidence of protest in rural areas of northern England, including rural Luddism. It will appeal to academic and local historians, as well as geographers and scholars of social movements in the UK, France and North America.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- List of illustrations
- pp. vii-x
- Acknowledgements
- pp. xv-xvi
- List of abbreviations
- pp. xvii-xviii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-20
- I. Spaces of exclusion, 1789–1830
- Vignette 1: Radical locales
- pp. 106-118
- II. Spaces of the body politic in the 1830s and 1840s
- Prelude: The reform crisis, 1830–2
- pp. 121-129
- 4. Embodied spaces and violent protest
- pp. 130-153
- Vignette 2: Processions
- pp. 177-188
- 6. Constructing new spaces
- pp. 189-220
- III. Region, neighbourhood and the meaning of place
- 7. The liberty of the landscape
- pp. 223-250
- 8. Rural resistance
- pp. 251-276
- 9. Making Moscows, 1839–48
- pp. 277-305
- Vignette 3: New horizons in America
- pp. 306-310
- Conclusion
- pp. 311-314
- Select bibliography
- pp. 315-323
Additional Information
ISBN
9781784996895
Related ISBN(s)
9781526116703, 9781784996277
MARC Record
OCLC
981549757
Pages
352
Launched on MUSE
2017-04-14
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2015