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The relationship between the people and their land has often been the cause of riot and protest. This chapter charts the rising level of enclosures of the common land and how that threatened to undermine the customs and sense of social order that had evolved in communities over centuries, at the same time the shift to the cities of a growing class went hand in hand with an expansion of trade that separated the interests of the merchant and the poorer citizen and changed the class composition of riot and protest.
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Clement, M. (2016). Artisans and Citizens: Riots from 1500–1700. In: A People’s History of Riots, Protest and the Law. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52751-6_4
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