The rural war
Carl J. Griffin
Manchester University Press, 2015
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The Swing Riots were the most dramatic and widespread rising of the English rural poor. Protestors destroyed machines, demanding higher wages and better poor relief. Swing represented a genuine challenge to the existing ruling order, provoking a bitter and bloody repression. This is a vivid account of a defining moment in British history. -- .
- ISBN-13
- 9780719097270
- ISBN-10
- 0719097274
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Year
- 2015
- Publication date
- 2015-03-01
- Pages
- 344
- Dimensions
- 237x157x28
- Weight
- 598