Lecture 10: Popular Protest (HIST 202)
This lecture examines the historical forms of popular protest and collective violence during the 19th century in Europe, focusing on the grain riots, the English Swing movement, and the Demoiselles of the Ariège to illustrate resistance against expanding capitalism and state power.
European Civilization, 1648-1945 (HIST 202)
Collective violence, in the form of popular protest, was one of the principal ways in which people resisted the expansion of capitalism and the state throughout the nineteenth century. The nature of this protest can be charted through three different, but related examples: grain riots across Europe in the first half of the century, the mythical figure of Captain Swing in England, and the Demoiselles of the Ariège in France. While these movements were ultimately repressed by the forces of capital and state power, they represented an attempt on the part of working people, the "remainders" of history, to impose an idea of popular justice.
Lecture 9: Middle Classes (HIST 202)
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