The Crowd in History: A Study of Popular

What really motivated the food rioters who sparked off the French Revolution? Who took part in the widespread disturbances that periodically shook eighteenth-century London? How did the Captain Swing movement of agricultural labourers destroying new machinery spread from one village to another in the English countryside? How did the sans-culottes organise in revolutionary Paris?

George Rude taught at universities in Canada and Australia. His numerous books include Revolutionary Europe, 1738-1815 and Ideology and Popular Protest.

Illustrations and Maps	p. vii
Preface to the 1981 edition	p. 1
Introduction: The Subject and Its Problems	p. 3
The Crowd in Action
The French Rural Riot of the Eighteenth Century	p. 19
The English Country Riot of the Eighteenth Century	p. 33
The City Riot of the Eighteenth Century	p. 47
Labor Disputes in Eighteenth-Century England	p. 66
Luddism	p. 79
The French Revolution: (1) The Political Riot	p. 93
The French Revolution: (2) The Food Riot	p. 108
The French Revolution: (3) The Labor Dispute	p. 123
'Church and King' Riots	p. 135
'Captain Swing' and 'Rebecca's Daughters'	p. 149
The French Revolution of 1848	p. 164
Chartism	p. 179
The Pre-industrial Crowd
Faces in the Crowd	p. 195
Motives and Beliefs	p. 214
The Pattern of Disturbance and the Behavior of Crowds	p. 237
The Success and Failure of the Crowd	p. 259
Bibliography	p. 270
Index	p. 273
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The Crowd in History: A Study of Popular Disturbances in France And England, 1730-1848

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