The Luddite Rebellion
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書誌事項
The Luddite Rebellion
Sutton, 1998
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注記
Bibliography: p. [174]-177
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This narrative history provides an account of the events leading up to the machine-breaking of the Luddite Rebellion, describing the progress of the riots in detail, as well as examining their motivation and the political and economic legacy they left behind. The Luddite riots began in the Nottinghamshire framework-knitting towns and villages in the early 19th century. Ned Ludd is popularly supposed to have smashed a knitting-frame and thus given his name to the mythology and rebellion of the period. Machine-breaking had, in fact, occurred some years before this, and the disturbances spread through the textile industries of the Midland counties and into Lancashire and Yorkshire. The reactions of the government were savage; more troops were deployed against the Luddites than Wellington had under his command against Napeoleon. Lord Byron, a Nottinghamshire landowner, made his maiden speech in the House of Lords agains the government's proposal to make machine-breaking a capital offence. The climax of the rebellion is often regarded as the attack at Rawfolds Mill, Liversedge, dramatized in Charlotte Bronte's "Shirley".
目次
- The Midland framework-knitters
- the advent and escalation of Luddism
- local responses and government reactions
- Yorkshire climax
- rumour and repression
- Gravenor Henson and the Framework-Knitters' Union
- trials and tribulations
- Midland denouement
- the aftermath
- hidden agenda?. Appendices: letter from Revd John T. Becher to the Home Office
- Lord Byron's maiden speech in the House of Lords, 27 February 1812
- proclamation by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the name and on behalf of His Majesty.
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