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An Agenda for Historical Studies of Rural Protest in Britain, 1750–1850

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

Andrew Charlesworth
Andrew Charlesworth
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Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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Rural History , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , October 1991 , pp. 231 - 240
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