The Moral Economy and Popular Protest: Crowds, Conflict and Authority
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Hardcover. This collection developed from a conference held in 1992 to mark the coming of age of E.P. Thompson's concept of "the moral economy". It provides a critical evaluation of the original concept and of its application to a wide and diverse field of scholarship. Editor(s): Randall, Adrian (Professor of English Social History, University of Birmingham); Charlesworth, Andrew (Reader in Human Geography, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education). Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JPWF; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 148 x 226 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
This book developed from a conference held in 1992 to mark the 'coming of age' of E.P.Thompson's seminal concept of 'the moral economy'. The collection provides a critical evaluation of the original concept and of its application to a wide and diverse field of scholarship, drawing together specialists from social and labour history, legal history, social, anthropology and historical geography who examine the developing utilisation of the concept of 'the moral economy' in different historical and societal contexts.
This book developed from a conference held in 1992 to mark the 'coming of age' of E.P.Thompson's seminal concept of 'the moral economy'. The collection provides a critical evaluation of the original concept and of its application to a wide and diverse field of scholarship, drawing together specialists from social and labour history, legal history, social, anthropology and historical geography who examine the developing utilisation of the concept of 'the moral economy' in different historical and societal contexts.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333671849
SKU
V9780333671849
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99-15
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ADRIAN RANDALL is Professor of English Social History at the University of Birmingham where from 1991 to 1997 he was Head of the School of Social Sciences. He is the author of Before the Luddites and, with Andrew Charlesworth, editor and co-author of Markets, Market Culture and Popular Protest in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland. With Andrew Charlesworth, Dave Gilbert, Humphrey ... Read more
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