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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Nicholas Rogers |
| ISBN: | 0198201729 9780198201724 |
| OCLC Number: | 38521458 |
| Description: | ix, 291 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Crowds in History -- 1. Seditious Words, Subversive Laughter: Popular Jacobitism in Hanoverian England -- 2. The Politics of War and Dearth, 1756-1757 -- 3. Liberty Road: The Opposition to Impressment during the Mid-Georgian Era -- 4. The Trial of Admiral Keppel -- 5. The Gordon Riots -- 6. Crowds, Festival, and Revolution, 1788-1795 -- 7. Crowds, Gender, and Public Space in Georgian Politics -- 8. Caroline's Crowds. |
| Responsibility: | Nicholas Rogers. |
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Abstract:
Crowds have long been part of the historical landscape. Professor Nicholas Rogers examines the changing role and character of crowds in Georgian politics through an investigation of some of the major crowd interventions in the period 1714-1821.
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important book ... deserves wide recognition as a work which makes a distinctive contribution ... Rogers offers a brilliant evocation of the lost world of gestures, symbols, and an adherence to a distinctive political calendar which so characterized the popular politics of the Georgian era ... This is an important, impressive and exciting book, and one that deserves to be very widely read ... formidable achievement. James Sharpe, Times Literary Supplement Read more...
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- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 18th century.
- Political participation -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
- Popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
- Crowds -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
- Politieke participatie.
- Politieke kwesties.
- Massa (sociale wetenschappen)
- Politische Beteiligung
- Politik
- Partizipation
- Massenbewegung (Soziologie)
- Großbritannien
- Massen
