Riots and reform
Burgh authority, the languages of civic reform and the Aberdeen riot of 1785
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12277347 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Mackillop (University of Aberdeen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 402-423 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0963-9268 • E-ISSN: 1469-8706 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s096392681600078x |
| OpenAlex | W2525291060 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article explores the understudied riots which occurred in Aberdeen in mid-October 1785. It charts the climate of politicization that characterized the burgh's civic life in the immediate aftermath of the American Revolution and before the outbreak of the equivalent process in France. In doing so, it challenges interpretations of the socially exclusive nature of the Scottish reform movement, the dynamics of continuity and change between this phenomenon and later political ‘radicalism’ and the role of Aberdeen as a ‘provincial’ metropolis in the Age of Revolution
Economic history · Phenomenon · Political authority · Political economy · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Social reform · Sociology · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Law · Public Administration · Scottish History and National Identity
Britain and the French Revolution, 1789–1815
The French Revolution and British Popular Politics
Aberdeen before 1800
Scotland's Conservative North in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
The Gordon Riots
Patriotism, Universalism and the Scottish Conventions, 1792–1794
The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c.1760–1840
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |