Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Burwick, Frederick

Titel

Riots (1815–1820)

Ist Teil von

• A History of Romantic Literature, 2019, p.297-412

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Wiley Online Library All Obooks

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Napoleonic Wars ended with the Battle of Waterloo. While Napoleon's strategy was to keep the British and Prussian forces from combining, he found his forces instead caught between their pincers at Waterloo on 18 June 1815. The aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars was a time of widespread unemployment, poverty, and hunger, made worse by the rising costs provoked by the Corn Laws. As a farmer who might himself profit from the Corn Laws, William Cobbett was nevertheless opposed to governmental intervention. With widespread poverty and unemployment, demonstrations turned into riots and prompted military intervention. Samuel Bamford was right in defining the riots of 1816 in terms of the events at Bridport, Bideford, Bury, Newcastle, Glasgow, Ely, Preston, Nottingham, Merthyr, Birmingham, and Walsall. In Dorset, the food riots broke out in Bridport. By 1819 the riots were being squelched by harsh military measures, killing the desperate victims of the economic downturn.