Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps and Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. The Eighteenth-Century Roots of Rural Protest 8
7. 2. Land Issues in a Changing Context, 1800–1824 27
8. 3. The Limitations of Developmental Politics, 1824–1831 43
9. 4. Escheat Enters the Political Arena, 1831–1833 60
10. 5. Resistance in the Countryside, 1832–1834 85
11. 6. Organizing Proprietors, 1831–1834 110
12. 7. Organizing Escheat, 1834–1836 136
13. 8. Harvey and the Escheators, 1836–1837 172
14. 9. Agrarian Institutions and the March to Power, 1837–1838 195
15. 10. The Limits of Democratic Power, 1838–1842 233
16. Appendix 277
17. Notes 279
18. Selected Bibliography 339