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

• Main Author: Navickas, Katrina
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Manchester University Press 2015
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: 19th century; England, Northern; Europe; General history of Europe England & Wales; Great Britain; Historical Geography; HISTORY; Radicalism; Social History

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...