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Crowds, culture, and politics in Georgian Britain
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Crowds, culture, and politics in Georgian Britain

Author: Nicholas Rogers
Publisher: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Here Professor Rogers looks at the role and character of crowds in Georgian politics and examines why the topsy-turvy interventions of the Jacobite era gave way to the more disciplined parades of Hanoverian England.
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Material Type: Internet resource
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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