Politics of Provisions - Food Riots, Moral Economy, and Market Transition in England, C. 1550 1850 Bohstedt JohnPaperback
Politics of Provisions - Food Riots, Moral Economy, and Market Transition in England, C. 1550 1850 Bohstedt JohnPaperback The elemental power of food politics has not been fully appraised. In times…
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Politics of Provisions - Food Riots, Moral Economy, and Market Transition in England, C. 1550 1850 Bohstedt JohnPaperback
The elemental power of food politics has not been fully appraised. In times of dearth, concatenations of food riots, repression, and relief created a maturing politics of provisions. Food marketing and consumption were matters of politics as much as economics as England became a market society.
Crowds seized wagons, attacked mills and granaries, and lowered prices in marketplaces or farmyards. Over three centuries, some eight hundred riots crackled in waves across England. Sometimes rioters parleyed with magistrates.
More often both acted out a well-rehearsed political minuet that evolved from Tudor risings and state policies down to a complex culmination during the Napoleonic Wars. 'Provision politics' thus comprised both customary negotiations over scarcity and hunger, and 'negotiations' of the social vessel through the turbulence of dearth. Occasionally troops killed rioters, or