Bread and justice in Qajar Iran: the moral economy, the free market and the hungry poor
In 1971, E. P. Thompson published a seminal article on eighteenth century English bread riots which was to become a foundational text for the study of such protests. Challenging older elite notions of the irrationality, illegitimacy and even criminality of the ‘mob’, Thompson situated popular direct...
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Taylor and Francis
2018
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