Paris and London in the eighteenth century : studies in popular protest, [by] George Rudé

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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

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