The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England by Robert Shoemaker

The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England

Robert Shoemaker

416 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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By 1700 London was the largest city in the world, with over 500,000 inhabitants. Very weakly policed, its streets saw regular outbreaks of rioting by a mob easily stirred by economic grievances, politics or religion. If the mob vented its anger mo...

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