Food rioting in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : the 'moral economy' and the Irish crowd / James Kelly.
Publisher: Dublin : Four Courts Press, [2017]Description: 271 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781846826399 (hbk.) :
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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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