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Crime, protest, and popular politics in southern England, 1740-1850, John Rule and Roger Wells

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Crime, protest, and popular politics in southern England, 1740-1850

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John Rule and Roger Wells

A collection of essays which examine responses to the struggle to live, in Southern England during 1740-1850. The responses ranged from, at the most extreme, sheep-stealing and incendiarism to joining in food riots in an attempt to impose a "moral economy"., Southern England has been studied considerably less than the industrializing north and midlands in the debate on the standard of living in the period up to 1850. Yet it is becoming clear that it was in the south and in the countryside that the greatest poverty and deprivation was to be found.; These essays examine responses to the struggle to live. The responses ranged from, at the most extreme, sheep-stealing and incendiarism to joining in food riots in an attempt to impose a "moral economy". More sustained protest is to be seen in passive and sometimes active resistance to authority, and in particular in the opposition to the introduction of the New Poor Law of 1834. Finally the appeal yet limitations of Chartism in the south is demonstrated