Moral Economy and Popular Protest: Crowds, Conflicts and Authority

by Adrian Randall (Editor), Andrew Charlesworth (Editor)

This collection provides a critical evaluation of E.P. Thompson's seminal concept of "the moral economy" and of its application to a wide and diverse field of scholarship. The volume draws together specialists from social and labor history, legal history, social anthropology, and historical geography who examine the developing utilization of the concept of "the moral economy" in different historical and societal contexts.

296 pages, Hardcover

First published November 20, 1999