The Politics of Provisions: Food Riots, Moral Economy, and Market Transition in England, C. 1550-1850

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2010 - History - 312 pages
This work traces the provision politics of emerging market society in England across its full three centuries; placing the burgeoning research on popular protests launched by E.P. Thompson's work in the context of recent syntheses on early modern economic history and state formation.
 

Contents

The Politics of Provisions
1
The Genesis of Provision Politics 15801650
21
A Political
91
The Formative Generation
103
A Viable but Doomed Provision Politics 17821812
165
The Decadence of the Politics of Provisions 181267
245
Provision Politics from the Book of Orders
261
Bibliography of Works Cited
279
Index
309
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John Bohstedt is Professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA, and author of Riots and Community Politics in England and Wales, 1790-1810.

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