Crowds, Culture, and Politics in Georgian Britain / Edition 2

by Nicholas Rogers

Overview

Crowds have long been a telling feature of the historical landscape. Here, Rogers examines the changing role and character of crowds in Georgian politics through an investigation of some of the major crowd interventions in the years 1714 to 1821. He shows how the topsy-turvy interventions of the Jacobite era gave way to the more disciplined parades of Hanoverian England, a transition shaped by the effects of war, revolution, and the expansion of the state and the market. These changes unsettled the existing relationship between crowds and authority, raising issues of citizenship, class, and gender that fostered the emergence of a progressive mass platform. On this platform, radical men (and, more ambiguously, women) staked out new demands for political power and recognition. This is an original, fascinating study that shows us how and why Hanoverian crowds were more than dissonant voices on the margins—they were an integral part of 18th-century politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198201724
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/10/1998
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.20(d)
Lexile:	1700L (what's this?)

About the Author

York University, Ontario

Table of Contents

Introduction: Crowds in HistorySeditions Words, Subversive Laughter: Popular Jacobitism in Hanovarian EnglandThe Politics of War and Dearth, 1756-57Liberty Road: The Opposition to Impressment During the Mid-Georgian EraThe Trial of Admiral KeppelThe Gordon RiotsCrowds, Festival, and Revolution, 1788-95Crowds, Gender, and Public Space in Hanoverian PoliticsCaroline's CrowdsConclusionIndex

Editorial Reviews

"Nicholas Rogers's new book has a significance beyond the study of crowds. Although Robers begins his monograph with an illunimating look at the historiography of crowds, his analysis ultimately challenges the conservative consensus in the historiography of eighteenth-century politics and society....[It] is an important intervention in eighteenth-century studies, combining an archivally based close reading of specific incidents, attentive to the eighteenth-century crowd on its own terms, with a broader perspective that integrates radical history and high politics to refute the hypothesis of a conservative consensus."—Journal of Modern History

"The importance of this book lies in the picture it presents as a whole of the continually contested class, power, and gender relations of the long eighteenth century....A book rich in detail and incident."—The Historian

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