The Moral Economy and Popular Protest

DAVID ARNOLD Professor of South Asian Studies at he School of Oriental and African Studies, London JOHN BOHSTEDT Associate Professor and Associate Head of the History Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville EDWARD COUNTRYMAN Professor in the Clements Department of History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas DOUGLAS HAY Associate Professor of Law and History, York University, Toronto JOHN RULE Professor of History, University of Southampton BUCHANAN SHARP Professor of History, University of California, Santa Cruz JAMES C. SCOTT Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University ROGER WELLS Reader in History, Canterbury Christ Church College

This collection developed from a conference held in 1992 to mark the coming of age of E.P. Thompson's concept of "the moral economy". It provides a critical evaluation of the original concept and of its application to a wide and diverse field of scholarship.This book developed from a conference held in 1992 to mark the 'coming of age' of E.P.Thompson's seminal concept of 'the moral economy'. The collection provides a critical evaluation of the original concept and of its application to a wide and diverse field of scholarship, drawing together specialists from social and labour history, legal history, social, anthropology and historical geography who examine the developing utilisation of the concept of 'the moral economy' in different historical and societal contexts.