Riots in England: 1790-1810
FAIN: FT-11868-74
John Bohstedt
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)
To research and to draft a manuscript on 700 riots in England between the years 1790 and 1810, in an effort to explain why violence was a fundamental feature of social relations, and what the social function of riots were. A local study of the Devonshire riots is included in the study.