Michael T. Davis is Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Griffith University, Australia. His publications include Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775-1848 (2000); London Corresponding Society (2002); Newgate in Revolution: An Anthology of Radical Prison Literature in the Age of Revolution (ed. with I. McCalman and C. Parolin, 2005); Unrespectable Radicals? Popular Politics in the Age of Reform (ed. with P. A. Pickering, 2008); and Terror: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism in Europe, 1605 to the Future (ed. with B. Bowden, 2008).

• Contents Introduction: The Arc of Violence: Riots, Disturbances of the Peace, Public Protests & Crowd Actions in History; Jack Fruchtman, Jr. 1. Heresy, Rebellion and Utopian Courage: The English Peasant Rising of 1381; Mark O'Brien 2. Riot and Religion in Sixteenth-Century France; Penny Roberts 3. Protest and Rebellion in Seventeenth-Century France; William Beik 4. The Politics of Protest in Seventeenth-Century England; John Walter 5. Provisioning, Power, and Popular Protest from the Seventeenth to the French Revolution and Beyond; Cynthia A. Bouton 6. Food Riots and Provision Politics in Early-Modern England & France, the Irish Famine and World War I; John Bohstedt 7. Nights of Fire: The Gordon Riots of 1780 and the Politics of War; Nicholas Rogers 8. Reformers No Rioters: British Radicalism and Mob Identity in the 1790s; Michael T. Davis 9. Machine-Breaking and the 'Threat from Below' in Great Britain and France during the Early Industrial Revolution; Jeff Horn 10. Militarization and Collective Action in Great Britain, 1815-1820; Gordon Pentland 11. The Revolutionary Century? Revolts in Nineteenth-Century France; Peter McPhee 12. Red May Days: Hopes and Fears in Europe in the 1890s; Chris Wrigley 13. 1968: Politics Takes to the Pavement; Brett Bowden 14. Making Other Worlds Possible? Riots, Movement and Counter-Globalisation; Tadzio Mueller, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, and Sian Sullivan 15. Riots in Thatcher's Britain; Peter Hayes 16. France's Burning Issue: Understanding the Urban Riots of November 2005; Raphael Canet, Laurent Pech, and Maura Stewart

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