Protest and the politics of space and place, 1789-1848

This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers’ rights in northern England. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. The book offers historical parallels for contemporary debates about protests in publ...

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Main Author Navickas, Katrina
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published United Kingdom Manchester University Press 2015
Edition1
Subjects
19th century
England, Northern
Europe
General history of Europe England & Wales
Great Britain
Historical Geography
HISTORY
Radicalism
Social History
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Summary:This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers’ rights in northern England. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. The book offers historical parallels for contemporary debates about protests in public space and democracy and anti-globalisation movements. In response to fears of revolution from 1789 to 1848, the British government and local authorities prohibited mass working-class political meetings and societies. Protesters faced the privatisation of public space. The ‘Peterloo Massacre’ of 1819 marked a turning point. Radicals, trade unions and the Chartists fought back by challenging their exclusion from public spaces, creating their own sites and eventually constructing their own buildings or emigrating to America. This book also uncovers new evidence of protest in rural areas of northern England, including rural Luddism. It will appeal to academic and local historians, as well as geographers and scholars of social movements in the UK, France and North America.
ISBN:9781784996895
1784996890
0719097053
9780719097058
DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719097058.001.0001