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Whilst the old community customs and laws were being undermined, riots and revolts in the cities of Europe and America threatened to overthrow the old monarchs and their empires and usher in a new modernity. Would the concept of law and order also change with the new society? And how was the class composition of the emerging system of capitalism affecting the constellation of players involved in riot and protest? Georgian England, republican France and industrial Britain provide the scene for an examination of these factors from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.
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Clement, M. (2016). Custom, Law and Class. In: A People’s History of Riots, Protest and the Law. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52751-6_5
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