Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Preface ix
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. List of abbreviations xiii
7. Introduction 1
8. 1 Crown and crowd 14
9. 2 Grain riots and popular attitudes to the law 27
10. 3 The geography of food riots, 1585–1649 67
11. 4 A ‘rising of the people’? 73
12. 5 The social economy of dearth in early modern England 124
13. 6 The impact of the English Civil War on society 181
14. 7 Public transcripts, popular agency and the politics of subsistence in early modern England 196
15. Index 223