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Book: Spectres of John Ball

Chapter: Georgian John: From Mob Rule to Reasonable Demands 

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.42755

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This chapter looks at how Ball was understood in the ‘century of the mob’ against the backdrop of rapid population growth in London and dramatic stories of famous criminals. It also looks at how Ball’s ideas were increasingly difficult to criticise as serfdom was a thing of the distant past.

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