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Food rioting in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : the 'moral economy' and the Irish crowd / James Kelly.

By: Publisher: Dublin : Four Courts Press, [2017]Description: 271 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781846826399 (hbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 941.5081 23
Summary: Food rioting, one of the most studied manifestations of purposeful protest internationally, was practised in Ireland for a century and a half between the early eighteenth century and 1860. This book provides a fully documented account of this phenomenon, and seeks to lay the foundations for a more structured analysis of popular protests during a period when riotous behaviour was normative. ... Book cover.
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Loanable Book Library Irish Collection 941.5081 KEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 000412766

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Food rioting, one of the most studied manifestations of purposeful protest internationally, was practised in Ireland for a century and a half between the early eighteenth century and 1860. This book provides a fully documented account of this phenomenon, and seeks to lay the foundations for a more structured analysis of popular protests during a period when riotous behaviour was normative. ...

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