Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. FROM MUTINY TO MASS MOBILIZATION -- Contention in 1833 -- What Changedy and Why? -- What's at Issue? -- Contending Ideas -- Common Action and Shared Understanding -- Repertoires of Contention -- Insistent Questions, Possible Answers -- What's to Come -- 2. CONTENTION UNDER A MAGNIFYING GLASS -- A Change of Repertoires -- Problems, Sources, Methods -- A Calendar of Contention -- Numbering the Struggles -- Forms of Contention, Old and New -- 3. CAPITAL, STATE, AND CLASS IN BRITAIN, 1750-1840 -- Proletarians, Landlords, and Others -- The Growth of Industry -- Urbanization -- Income and Inequality -- War and the British State -- Repression in Britain -- Popular Participation in National Politics -- Social Movements and Democracy -- 4. WILKES, GORDON, AND POPULAR VENGEANCE, 1758-1788 -- How Britain Was Changing -- Contentions Flow -- How the Repertoire Worked -- Against Poorhouses and Enclosures -- Workers' Contention -- Mutations -- 5. REVOLUTION, WAR, AND OTHER STRUGGLES, 1789-1815 -- Associations in France and Britain -- Economy and Demography -- State, War, and Parliament -- Textures of Contention -- Contentious Issues -- The Issue Is Food -- Who Contended, and How? -- Revolution and Popular Sovereignty -- 6. STATE, CLASS, AND CONTENTION, 1816-1827 -- Economy and State, 1816-1827 -- From War to Peace to Contention -- Contentious Contours -- Queen Caroline -- Contentious Actors -- Workers in Action -- Contending with Associations -- Political Entrepreneurs, Radicals, and Reformers -- Conclusions -- 7. STRUGGLE AND REFORM, 1828-1834 -- Spurting Population, Expanding Economy -- Consolidating State -- Repertoires for the 1830s -- The Political Crisis of 1828-1834 -- Embattled Bobbies -- Swing.