The Swing Riots were the most dramatic and widespread rising of the English rural poor. Protestor...

This book offers the first systematic study of how elite conservation schemes and policies define...

Cyrillona (fl. 396) has been ranked among the foremost early Syriac poets since his work was redi...

This book offers the first systematic study of the multiple and contested ways in which protest i...

Systematically explores what it is conceived as 'hunger politics': the articulations of hunger as...

This book offers the first systematic study of the multiple and contested ways in which protest i...

Rural workers in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England were not passive victims in the...

Beginning in Kent in the summer of 1830 before spreading throughout the country, the Swing Riots ...

In the age of Malthus and the workhouse when the threat of famine and absolute biological want ha...