The Rural War: Captain Swing and the Politics of Protest

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The Swing Riots were the most dramatic and widespread rising of the English rural poor. Protestors destroyed machines, demanding higher wages and better poor relief. Swing represented a genuine challenge to the existing ruling order, provoking a bitter and bloody repression. This is a vivid account of a defining moment in British history. -- .

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Meticulously researched'
Mark Metcalf,Tribune, December 2012

'Griffin has provided a compelling reappraisal of Swing which is a major contribution to geographies of rural protest. It also offers a vision for a post-Thompsonian way of thinking about the forms of subaltern political activity in English countryside.'
Dave Featherstone, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography

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Carl J. Griffin is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at University of Sussex