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Why were food riots the most common form of Popular Protest in eighteenth century Europe?
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043275339 Why were food riots the most common form of Popular Protest in eighteenth century Europe? Food riots were a form of popular protest generally held to have been common between the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Food riots were a knee jerk reaction to shortages and unacceptable inflation in the price of necessities1 . The eighteenth century was particularly prone to this reactionary form of collective action2 and in order to understand why I have looked at the political and social circumstances within Europe at that time. Food riots were not the only form of protest going on in this period. Wage movements, city riots and peasant rebellions are also evident; however, food riots were the most common. They made up 175 of the documented 275 riots in England between 1735 and 1800 and another 100 such riots in France between 1724 and 1789. Food riots are simply a reaction to...
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