Locating agency: Space, power and popular politics

Publication Type

Edited Book

Publication Date

8-2010

Abstract

In the latter half of the twentieth century, historians came to consider "politics" to mean more than simply the formal institutions and apparatus of government, run by a small minority of wealthy, educated elite men. The word has been adopted by historians of different genres as synonymous with power, or agency, and the scope for “political” activity has been widened to incorporate a variety of everyday events and ordinary people.These collected essays explore the quotidian experience of politics in the form of popular politics, religion and popular culture. The contributors consider, for example: the politics of the alehouse, the politics of Methodism, the interrelationship between plebeian agency, custom and memory, the politics of economics, dramatic agency and the politics of the spiritual parish. Collectively they suggest that political activity was embedded in almost every aspect of life. In addition they draw on interdisciplinary theory, in particular the “spatial turn” and how it can be used to better understand popular agency.

Keywords

History, early modern Britain, popular politics, culture, riot, dissent

Discipline

History | Politics and Social Change

Research Areas

Humanities

First Page

1

Last Page

224

ISBN

9781443814485

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars

City or Country

Newcastle

Additional URL

https://worldcat.org/isbn/9781443814485

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