The Crowd in History: A Study of Popular Disturbances in France And England, 1730-1848
, by Rude, George F. E.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781897959473 | 1897959478
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/30/2005
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?