Riots and Community Politics in England and Wales, 1790–1810

Bohstedt, John

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“…This political economic evolution fostered various kinds of provision politics between 1586 and 1810 (Bohstedt 1983(Bohstedt , 2000(Bohstedt , 2010. In half a dozen food crises between 1740 and 1801, more than 600 food riots crackled through hundreds of towns and villages across England and Wales.…”

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“…I have reconstructed that political economy by sifting accounts of food riots, their dynamics and their underlying horizontal and vertical networks from thousands of pages of contemporary newspapers, magistrates' reports, and judicial and local records (Bohstedt 1983(Bohstedt , 2010. As transgressions of normal order, food riots made 'news' in these sources, but did not generate a sense of systemic crisis.…”

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“…By the time of the mature 'golden age of food riots' (1740-1801), we can discern a differentiated spectrum of community politics of provisions (Bohstedt 1983). (1) In stable small market towns and county towns, established palpable networks and reciprocities among the common people and with their rulers permitted rioting crowds to engage in 'orderly disorder' of traditional and restrained riotous behaviour.…”

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Food riots and the politics of provisions from early modern Europe and China to the food crisis of 2008

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2016

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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2016

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“…To take one example, the food crisis of 1795-6 generated some 170 riots of several distinct varieties, depending upon different communities' tissues of sociopolitical relations (Bohstedt 1983). Provision politics took several forms:…”

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Food Riots and the Politics of Provisions in World History

Bohstedt

2014

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SummaryThe food riots of 2007-8 in dozens of developing countries placed food security on the agendas of the global political economy. Material outcomes remain to be assessed. The problematic of the politics of provisions is: Under what circumstances do the common people's necessities create a political necessity for their rulers to act? What combination of ingredients gives them political leverage (or not)? Food riots (crowd violence: usually seizing food, intercepting carts and barges, or setting prices) set in motion political processes that often led to food relief and/or repression. To riot about food, rioters needed much more than motivations of hunger and outrage, or else world history would consist mostly of food riots. In addition rioters needed both sufficient solidarities to be able to act collectively, and sufficient confidence that the benefits (getting food, both immediately and in more sustained supply) would outweigh the risks and costs of repression and punishment. The latter would be based on reciprocal relationships with the rulers. The outcomes of such 'trials-by-ordeal' were then entered into social memory to be consulted in the next crisis. Of course rulers also had their social memories and political calculations. So the 'politics of provisions' -the political economy of food crises and their resolutions -has typically included such components as: political, social, and economic structures; the players' sociopolitical assets, capacities, and relationships; shared ideologies; strategic bargaining in the moment between chief actors; and accidental factors. Those components vary from one time and place to another, so this paper compares the politics of provisions in: pre-modern England and France; famines in Ireland and India; 'famine-proofed' Ming and Qing China; Mao's Great Leap Forward Famine; the IMF austerity riots of the 1970s and 80s; and the food riots of 2008, particularly in Egypt, West Africa, and Haiti. The point of such comparisons is not to construct a unified theory of provision politics, but to illuminate significant parameters that shape policies and conflicts over food.

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“…50 If this is the record of a 'thin tradition of collective action', then one wonders what would constitute a 'long tradition'. 51 Bohstedt is too dismissive of tradition and custom in a rapidly changing industry like cotton textiles and in a sector of that industry like handloom weaving, where ease of entry appears to transform the trade into an unskilled casual occupation. As Rule has argued, in such trades as weaving there remained the old hereditary practitioners, either formerly apprenticed or taught by their fathers and uncles.…”

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From the moral economy of Devon to the political economy of Manchester, 1790–1812¹

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