Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848 Navickas Katrina
Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848 Navickas Katrina This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers' rights in northern England. The…
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Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848 Navickas Katrina
This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers' rights in northern England. The book offers historical parallels for contemporary debates about protests in public space and democracy and anti-globalisation movements. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place.
Protesters faced the privatisation of public space. In response to fears of revolution from 1789 to 1848, the British government and local authorities prohibited mass working-class political meetings and societies. The 'Peterloo Massacre' of 1819 marked a turning point.
Radicals, trade unions and the Chartists fought back by challenging their exclusion from public spaces, creating their own sites and eventually constructing their own buildings or emigrating to America. This book also uncovers new evidence of protest in rural areas of
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