The Role of Tradition in Agrarian Protest: England and Wales in the Nineteenth Century

Description

M.A. thesis in three parts. The first, The Traditional Nature of Agrarian Society, contains sections on the customary society, the Corn Riots, rituals of justice and the highwayman tradition. Part Two, Communal Agrarian Disturbances, has sections on ritual frameworks, enclosure disturbances, agrarian disturbances in East Anglia, 1816, Captain Swing, the Ceffyl Pren and the Rebecca Riots. The final part, Individual Agrarian Protest, contains sections on incendiarism and stock-maiming and poaching. Four appendices contain highwayman song texts, a chronology of poaching songs, poaching song texts and a note on the Waltham Black Act.

Metadata

Identifier llr36p3q
IRN 409944
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/1/048
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/llr36p3q
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Postgraduate Theses and Dissertations
Creator(s) Seal, Graham
Date 1978
Size and Medium 83 unbound typed leaves, 38.

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