Riots, Rising And Revolution: Governance and Violence in Eighteenth Century England by Ian Gilmour

Riots, Rising And Revolution: Governance and Violence in Eighteenth Century England

Ian Gilmour

512 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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Britain in the eighteenth century was deeply divided; riots over politics, food and religion were endemic. Despite the relative liberty of English institutions; the penal code was the harshest in Europe - stealing a hankerchief was a capital offen...

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