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Crowds and History: Mass Phenomena in English Towns, 1790 1835

Crowds and History: Mass Phenomena in English Towns, 1790 1835

Harrison, Mark
Roper, Lyndal

Paperback

Series: Past and Present Publications

General European HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 0521520134
ISBN13: 9780521520133
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 20 2002
Pages: 380
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, urbanisation 'revolutionised' English society as much as industrialisation. Central to this urbanising process, and the civic culture it inspired, was the bringing together of people in large numbers - to celebrate, commemorate, vilify or validate. Contemporary observers found the power and potential of urban crowds both awesome and alarming. They witnessed the capacity of the masses to confer honour and prestige upon a proud city elite or, by turning hostile, to bring civic ruin. Yet this ambivalent relationship between the individual and the crowd, which resonates through not only the nineteenth century but all human history, has remained generally ignored by historians. They have regarded crowds almost exclusively as a riotous, disruptive and protesting force. This book, which is the first systematic historical study of mass phenomena, challenges such preconceptions and re-defines the place of the crowd in history.

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