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The Crowd in History
A Study of Popular Disturbances in France and England, 1730-1848
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ISBN-13:
9781909150225
Veröffentl:
2014
Einband:
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Seiten:
0
Autor:
George Rudé
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
Web PDF
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
A classic work of 'history from below', The Crowd in History is remarkable above all for the clarity with which it deals with complex historical events – exploring the role crowds played in historical events from the storming of the Bastille to the Luddite disturbances.
What 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 Rudé was the first historian to ask such questions, and in doing so he identified 'the faces in the crowd' in some of the key episodes in modern European history. A classic work of 'history from below', The Crowd in History is remarkable above all for the clarity with which it deals with complex historical events. Whether in Cairo or Kiev, crowds continue to make history, and George Rudé's work retains all its freshness and relevance for both the general reader and the student of history and politics.
George Rudé was the first historian to ask such questions, and in doing so he identified 'the faces in the crowd' in some of the key episodes in modern European history. A classic work of 'history from below', The Crowd in History is remarkable above all for the clarity with which it deals with complex historical events. Whether in Cairo or Kiev, crowds continue to make history, and George Rudé's work retains all its freshness and relevance for both the general reader and the student of history and politics.