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Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834 (Hardcover)
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Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834 (Hardcover)
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'A rich and thoughtful book.' History 'A magnificent empirical
resource accompanied by a subtle and powerful framework of
interpretation...It is not often that historical scholarship is so
effectively harnessed to the sociological imagination.' American
Journal of Sociology 'This is a masterpiece of social movement
analysis by an author at the peak of his analytical powers making
full use of one of the most extensive evidence files available.'
Mobilization 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 - for the first time anywhere - mass
participation in national politics. Charles Tilly is the first to
address the depth and significance of the transformations in
popular collective action during this period. The author elucidates
four distinct phases in the transformation to mass political
participation and identifies the forms and occasions for collective
action that characterized and dominated each. He provides rich
descriptions, not only of a wide variety of popular protests, but
also of such influential figures as John Wilkes, Lord George
Gordon, William Cobbett, and Daniel O'Connell.
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