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Paris and London in the eighteenth century, studies in popular protest, George Rudé

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Paris and London in the eighteenth century

George Rudé

studies in popular protest

Contents: The 'pre-industrial' crowd.--Society and conflict in London and Paris in the eighteenth century.--The outbreak of the French Revolution.--The fall of the Bastille.--The social composition of the Parisian insurgents of 1789 to 1791.--The motives of popular insurrection in Paris during the French Revolution.--'Mother Gin' and the London riots of 1736.--Wilkes and liberty, 1768-9.--The Gordon riots: a study of the rioters and their victims.--The London 'mob' of the eighteenth century.--Collusion and convergence in eighteenth century English political action