Casualties of History: "God sent Meat into the World for us Poor as well as Rich"

We cover chapters three and four—"Satan's Strongholds" and "The Free-Born Englishman." With guest John Bohstedt (author of The Politics of Provisions: Food Riots, Moral Economy, and Market Transition in England, 1550-1850) we discuss the history and logic of riots in early modern England: why did riots occur so frequently? What did they mean? And how did they relate to the widely held ideas about English liberties, which both contributed to and inhibited the development of popular radicalism?

Secondary Readings:

John Bohstedt, Riots and Community Politics in England and Wales, 1790–1810.

John Bohstedt, The Politics of Provisions: Food Riots, Moral Economy, and Market Transition in England, 1550–1850.

Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaugh, John G. Rule, E.P. Thompson, and Cal Winslow, Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England.

Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution.

George Rudé, The Crowd in History: A Study of Popular Disturbances in France and England, 1730–1848.

Charles Tilly, "Collective Violence in European Perspective."

E.P. Thompson, "The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century.”

E.P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: The Origins of the Black Act.