{"product_id":"2026200013357-secondhand-the-crowd-in-history-1730-1848","title":"The Crowd In History, 1730-1848","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the crossroads of history and sociology stands a radical question: who were the men and women who filled the streets, stormed the bastilles, and shook the foundations of the old order? George Rudé's landmark work, The Crowd in History, 1730-1848, answers that question with forensic precision, chronicling the role of popular protest and mass action across England and France during one of the most turbulent centuries in Western civilization. Drawing on criminal records, parish registers, and court documents, Rudé reconstructs the faces behind the mob — artisans, labourers, and the urban poor — dismantling the elite-driven narrative that dismissed collective action as mere riot and chaos, and instead presenting it as a rational, politically conscious force for change.\n\nA foundational text of social history, this work sits alongside the scholarship of E.P. Thompson and Eric Hobsbawm in redefining how historians understand class, power, and resistance from below. Rudé's methodology is meticulous yet his prose remains accessible, grounding grand historical movements — the Gordon Riots, the French Revolution, the Swing Riots — in the lived realities of ordinary people. For anyone seeking to understand how history is not merely made by kings and parliaments but by the surging, purposeful energy of the crowd, this essential volume will permanently alter the way you read the past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203359121627,"sku":"2026200013357-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/8799a0b3-456d-484e-9d6c-c6d78aceb9a5.png?v=1788147965","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013357-secondhand-the-crowd-in-history-1730-1848","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}