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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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter Table of Contents List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations [Map] Introduction 1: Spaces of exclusion and intrusion in the 1790s 2: Defending the liberty to meet, 1795–1819 3: Peterloo and the changing definition of seditious assembly Vignette 1: Prelude: 4: Embodied spaces and violent protest 5: Contesting new administrative geographies in the 1830s and 1840s Vignette 2: 6: Constructing new spaces 7: The liberty of the landscape 8: Rural resistance 9: Making Moscows, 1839–48 Vignette 3: Conclusion Select bibliography Index
  • Cover Title Page, Copyright Contents List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction I. Spaces of exclusion, 1789–1830 1. Spaces of exclusion and intrusion in the 1790s 2. Defending the liberty to meet, 1795–1819 3. Peterloo and the changing definition of seditious assembly Vignette 1: Radical locales II. Spaces of the body politic in the 1830s and 1840s Prelude: The reform crisis, 1830–2 4. Embodied spaces and violent protest 5. Contesting new administrative geographies in the 1830s and 1840s Vignette 2: Processions 6. Constructing new spaces III. Region, neighbourhood and the meaning of place 7. The liberty of the landscape 8. Rural resistance 9. Making Moscows, 1839–48 Vignette 3: New horizons in America Conclusion Select bibliography Index
  • Cover -- Protest and the politics of space and place, 178 9-1848 -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- I Spaces of exclusion, 1789-1830 -- 1 Spaces of exclusion and intrusion in the 1790s -- 2 Defending the liberty to meet, 1795-1819 -- 3 Peterloo and the changing definition of seditious assembly -- Vignette 1: Radical locales -- II Spaces of the body politic in the 1830s and 1840s -- Prelude: The reform crisis, 1830-2 -- 4 Embodied spaces and violent protest -- 5 Contesting new administrative geographies in the 1830s and 1840s -- Vignette 2: Processions -- 6 Constructing new spaces -- III Region, neighbourhood and the meaning of place -- 7 The liberty of the landscape -- 8 Rural resistance -- 9 Making Moscows, 1839-48 -- Vignette 3: New ho rizons in America -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Index