SOCIAL DISORDER IN BRITAIN 1750-1850 by J.E.THOMAS, James E Thomas, Thomas, J. E., J. E Thomas ISBN 9781848855038, 1848855036 instant download

SOCIAL DISORDER IN BRITAIN 1750-1850 by J.E.THOMAS, James E Thomas, Thomas, J. E., J. E Thomas ISBN 9781848855038, 1848855036 instant download

\"In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries revolutionary dissent, political upheaval and social protest spread throughout Europe - and Wales was no exception. In this unique examination of British social history, J.E. Thomas focuses upon the power of the local gentry in Wales, and their relationship with the poor and potentially revolutionary population. Early explosions of protest were seen all over Wales, coinciding with the aftermath of the American Revolution, and the equally seismic events of the French Revolution, while later revolts went on to provide serious challenges to the British state. 'Social Disorder in Britain' is an important contribution to the study of the history of religion, social protest and the rise of revolutionary movements, and will be essential reading for students and researchers of British history as well as those interested in revolution more generally.\"--Publisher's website In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries revolutionary dissent, political upheaval and social protest spread throughout Europe, and Wales was no exception. In this unique examination of British social history, J.E. Thomas focuses upon the power of the local gentry in Wales, and their relationship with the poor and potentially revolutionary population. Early explosions of protest were seen all over Wales, coinciding with the aftermath of the American Revolution, and the equally seismic events of the French Revolution. Thomas here analyses the importance of the intellectual ideas and political imagination of the protesters in Wales, and the impact of Welsh translations of seminal revolutionary texts such as Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, and Volney's Ruins of Empire Crucially, and controversially, Thomas questions the received wisdom that nonconformism was politically radical and sought to improve the conditions of the poor. By exploring the attitudes of the powerful nonconformist bodies, he offers a reassessment of the social history of religion in Wales, in…