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The Politics of Provisions - Food Riots, Moral Economy, and Market Transition in England, c. 1550-1850 (Paperback)
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The Politics of Provisions - Food Riots, Moral Economy, and Market Transition in England, c. 1550-1850 (Paperback)
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The elemental power of food politics has not been fully appraised.
Food marketing and consumption were matters of politics as much as
economics as England became a market society. In times of dearth,
concatenations of food riots, repression, and relief created a
maturing politics of provisions. Over three centuries, some eight
hundred riots crackled in waves across England. Crowds seized
wagons, attacked mills and granaries, and lowered prices in
marketplaces or farmyards. Sometimes rioters parleyed with
magistrates. More often both acted out a well-rehearsed political
minuet that evolved from Tudor risings and state policies down to a
complex culmination during the Napoleonic Wars. 'Provision
politics' thus comprised both customary negotiations over scarcity
and hunger, and 'negotiations' of the social vessel through the
turbulence of dearth. Occasionally troops killed rioters, or judges
condemned them to the gallows, but increasingly riots prompted
wealthy citizens to procure relief supplies. In short, food riots
worked: in a sense they were a first draft of the welfare state.
This pioneering analysis connects a generation of social protest
studies spawned by E.P. Thompson's essay on the 'moral economy'
with new work on economic history and state formation. The dynamics
of provision politics that emerged during England's social,
economic and political transformations should furnish fruitful
models for analyses of 'total war' and famine as well as broader
transitions elsewhere in world history.
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